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Nevada City native tackles hippie upbringing in new book

As a child, Nathanael Johnson didn’t recognize his family’s “strangeness” until he landed in the unfamiliar territory of elementary school. It was there among the classrooms, playground and cafeteria that Johnson began to observe that what he took to be self-evident — his family’s all-natural lifestyle — was not the same as his classmates. The students ate pre-packaged Lunchables to his homemade brown rice stir-fry. As he grew up and was exposed to more and more mainstream influences, including technology, Johnson became more intrigued by an all-natural lifestyle versus one based on modern conveniences and which one, if either, was better. The …

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