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Claire Donald

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Damn.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

I know.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

One of the biggest parties that they ever had, people were just like getting their cars stolen left and right at that party.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And then Joan said that she went up to Quintana's room to check and make sure everything was okay.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Okay.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And there was drugs all over the floor of her daughter's room.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And she was like, I was horrified to think that someone would ever go into my daughter's room and do drugs.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

And I'm still not clear if Quintana was in her room or if she was gone.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

That's so scary.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So scary.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Like just so dark.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Truly, when you get to the point where you're like, yeah, I'm going to do whatever you're doing, whatever drug.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

with like a crib next to you you might want to check yourself and that's all we need to say for the rest of this episode go to the bathroom like my god bring it back to just a classic line in the bathroom yeah like what what's wrong with that you know if it ain't broke don't fix it jesus christ yeah there were just drugs everywhere like again it is the 60s yeah

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So when she's living in Los Angeles, this magazine that she was writing for was in New York.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So she was reporting on a lot of stuff that they weren't seeing.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Because again, we have to put ourselves back in this time.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

We don't have social media.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

You can't see what's going on in the world everywhere.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

So she gets assigned to do a piece on Haight-Ashbury.

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Joan Didion: The Writer Who Defined California Cool

Ah, love.