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you may get off that for the benefit of the free world were smoking banana skins. It's called mellow yellow saffron. Right? It's not dope, it gets you high you just come and come in the door and say I'm hungry, take him in, you feed them and

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give them a place to sleep. What's the philosophy of the diggers? I'm not going to pay for your trip and everything is free. Like the food is here, it's yours, there's a place to sleep, it's yours love. That's where it's at. Is it possible that the

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very existence of the diggers encourages young runaways from other cities? Yeah I imagine it would except for the fact that anybody that's under 18 cannot sleep here during the night and so anybody over 18 should be able to leave home you know and do what they

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want. But if you're under 16 a lot of people say that you shouldn't leave home and they can't come here to sleep. I mean we can feed them but we can't put them up, we get busted for that. Some of the youngsters are here only for

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the easter holiday week. Where are you from L. A. And you came up just for easter? Yeah. What do you do normally? Are you in school? Yeah I go to high school. I got a feeling of friendship right through when I first came in because I

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was just walking down the street down you know hate then people told me well you need a place to stay and you know if you're hungry go to the diggers. And so and so I came here and walked in here. And you know, I just feel

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like all friends of friends. This is Claude Man from 848 Clay Street Diggers headquarters in the Haight Ashbury.