Episode 6: The Magic Veil
I Was Never There
Acast Creative Studios
4.6 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Karen helps us understand the mindset that helped Marsha and Karen both live life unafraid of consequences. To explain, we head back to Karen’s back-to-the-land world in Braxton County where Karen and her lover Patty grew pot right out in the open, protected by what they called “The Magic Veil.”
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah's |
| 0:06.0 | Waking and bacon |
| 0:08.3 | No, don't burn my thing |
| 0:09.8 | I was just lighting the match next to the thing |
| 0:11.6 | Let it lighten the thing and then listen |
| 0:13.1 | Sound marijuana. |
| 0:27.7 | Just kidding. |
| 0:30.3 | I should figure it would be good for effects. |
| 0:32.9 | That's my sister Sarah. |
| 0:34.8 | She's a proud, high-functioning stoner. |
| 0:39.4 | It's 9 a.m. by the way. 9 a.m. |
| 0:44.0 | As you may have gathered by now, for my family, weed was always there. |
| 0:51.3 | There's this one story from my childhood that really sums it up. |
| 0:56.0 | Some may raise an eyebrow when they hear it, but it's one I've always loved. |
| 1:01.2 | We recently revisited the story with our dear friend, Patty Campbell. |
| 1:05.9 | She was the director of social work at my nursery school where the incident took place. |
| 1:12.0 | Picture this. It's 1976, Baxter, Baxter County, West Virginia. |
| 1:17.3 | Little Jamie just sat down to circle time. Everyone is getting ready to sing a song. |
| 1:22.1 | But Jamie and her two friends from their back to the land community are doing something |
| 1:26.2 | different. Here's Patty. And land community are doing something different. |
| 1:28.6 | Here's Patty. |
| 1:30.9 | And there you are in the circle. |
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