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Hello, Ghost Family.

Welcome back to Family Ghosts.

Today we begin the second season of Family Ghosts.

And as our team thought about the questions we wanted to explore in our stories this season,

I kept coming back to the watchword of our show.

Every house is haunted.

And I got to thinking, that phrase begs a question, which is, can you even have a family

without ghosts?

And what would happen if you tried to create one?

The first spark that led to the left-family being what it is was an LSD experience.

In 1967, Brian Allen dropped out of the University of California and moved to San Francisco.

And when he got there, he was crashing on a friend's floor with another guy who was also

new in town.

That guy's name was Paul Erdman, and Brian wasn't sure what to make of him at first.

He was always kind of a little bit of a hustler salesman, even then, and always really.

Paul suggested that he and Brian should get their own apartment and be roommates.

He also suggested that Brian should put up all the money for the rent and the security deposit,

which Brian did reluctantly.

But they found a place, and shortly after they moved in, they took some LSD together.

What we ended up doing is turning face to face, needed knee, sitting in the lotus position,

facing each other and looking into each other's eyes.

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