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wow, just wow.  I can't imagine this experience.  thanks for sharing it though.  I remember there being some confrontational christian evangelical types there, was that correct or is that a flashback from a dead show?

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I was there on sunday.  I was a child, just about to turn five years old.  the spectacle before me opened my eyes to things that set me on a course of life that people have not been able to understand or comprehend.  what a mind trip that was for my child brain to experience.

I witnessed the bands, the nudity, the mud people, I remember telling mom I wanted to go swimming but she wouldn't let me go down with all the naked people.  I told her I don't care, I want to go swimming with them.

I was there because my mother's friend took us there.  she was an undercover cop.  she wanted to check it out because the cops weren't supposed to be there so I got to tag along.  what a strange perspective to have taken that in.  It has always stayed with me and of course the sights were unexpected and as I grew up I remembered but my mother never mentioned it.

I would bring this memory up from time to time growing up and mom would kind of mumble and dismiss it.

Then the universe brought Matt Love on the scene and brought it all together for me.  And now I can see that it really happened and those memories were not just something my child mind had concocted on its own.

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