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    Summer of Love
    Summer of Love
    Summer of Love
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    Summer of Love

    By Marc Colten

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    Belying its title, "Summer of Love" is one man's story of how his entire world was turned upside down on a beautiful summer day so many years ago. Every assumption he has made about life is destroyed, leaving him with only questions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarc Colten
    Release dateJan 2, 2014
    ISBN9781310287107
    Summer of Love
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    Marc Colten

    Marc Colten was born in 1950 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. His was influenced by the Cold War and the divisiveness of the Viet-Nam war. His literary influences were the novels of George Orwell and John LeCarre and the short stories of Saki and John Collier.

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      Summer of Love - Marc Colten

      Summer of Love

      by Marc Colten

      Copyright 2014 Marc Colten

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      Summer of Love

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      Marc Colten

      It was June of 1967, the Summer of Love. I know that talking about it now, to you, makes it sound as if I was talking about the age of the dinosaurs, and maybe I am. I sometimes feel like a dinosaur that’s lived past its time. I

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