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TGIF: I Couldn't Handle Vacation Edition
TGIF: I Couldn't Handle Vacation Edition
Joan Didion stands at the panhandle of Golden Gate Park with a group of hippies in April 1967. (Ted Streshinsky/Corbis via Getty Images)
Plus, remembering Joan Didion, the original California contrarian.
By Nellie Bowles
12.24.21 — TGIF
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TGIF: I Couldn't Handle Vacation Edition

Hello and welcome back. I said I would take today off for Christmas. But I have too much fun doing this. I can’t quit you! This week I’m writing to you from rainy San Francisco. 

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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