Member of the Family: Manson, Murder and Me. Dianne Lake

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      First published in the US by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

      This UK edition HarperElement 2018

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      Text © Dianne Lake 2017

      All photos courtesy of the author

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2018

      Cover photographs © Vladimir Serov/Getty Images (model); Bettmann/Getty Images (Charles Manson)

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      Source ISBN: 9780008274764

      Ebook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008261481

      Version 2018-03-09

DEDICATION

       To the victims and their families; those who needlessly

       lost their lives and those who continue to suffer because of

       the madness of this dark time in our shared history. May

       God’s grace prevail and heal the pain that remains.

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author’s Note

Prologue

PART I. TURN ON

1 A Minnesota Childhood

2 Family Matters

3 One Stray Ash

4 California

5 How to Be-In

6 Hippies in Newsprint

7 The Note

       8 Welcome to the Hog Farm

       9 Someone Groovy

       PART II. TUNE IN

       10 The Black Bus

       11 We Are All One

       12 Panhandling and Postulating

       13 Snake

       14 Spahn Ranch

       15 Beach Boy

       16 A Little Monkey

       17 A Door Closes

       18 On the Edge

       19 Baking Soda Biscuits

       20 Out of Sight

       21 Preaching the White Album

       22 A Simple Bag of Coins

       PART III. DROP OUT

       23 The Witches’ Brew

       24 Reclaiming My Name

       25 My Day in Court

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgments

       Photos Section

       About the Publisher

AUTHOR’S NOTE

      It is time for me to exorcise my own demons and to face the truth as much as I can remember it. In this book, I have shared what I can re-create through straining my memory muscle,