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Hippie Movement

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The hippie movement was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed in the United States and spread throughout much of the western world between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s. It was characterized by communal living, free love, interest in Eastern spirituality, and widespread use of drugs to achieve higher consciousness.

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