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1960s: Parties, Aging, and a Terrible Accident

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While young people with flowers in their hair gather to San Seqouia to party, young people in general start going to Oasis Springs for the same reason. Here the scene is different, however, less statements about love and less use of bubbles and more pop-music, keg-drinking, dancing and making out while drunk and regretting it later. Michael loves these parties, when he gets permission from his parents to go, that is. Mostly, this is when they don't know what's going on and think he and his friends are just going to the park after school. And technically, that's true. They do. And they do swim, play foosball, darts and ping pong like Michael tells his parents they are. It's just that they also dance and drink and make out which he simply "forgets" to tell them. Micheal doesn't feel the least bit guilty for withholding information though, not when doing so gives him the courage to make a move on Linda, and - finally! - make out with her. Totally worth a smal...

1960: To boldly go where no TV-show has gone before

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As his aunt is renovating a house in San Seqouia and his uncle is planning to move into the new house on the street, Michael is settling into high school life. He's doing well in his classes, and spends his recesses trying to impress the cutest girl in school. Linda seems interested - he thinks - and so when he catches her going into the gym he follows, and tries to flirt with her. She flirts back - he thinks - maybe - but then she abruptly leaves. Michael is very confused. Is that a thing? Does girls do that? Why can't they just say what they mean? After asking his friends, he finally decides that there is nothing for it. He needs to ask his dad, who actually give him some really good advice on healthy relationships, the importance of listening to what you feel, of respecting girls and talking to them like you would a guy (that would be easier if they behaved like guys). But then, just for safe measures, Thomas makes sure to include a birds-and-the-bees talk too about how easy...

1960s: Abby ages up and Arthur finds a home

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As the months speed by, Barbara spends a lot of her time at home or in her community, fixing her house, tending to Abby and socialising with the neighbors. Lisa and Kurt next door, has had a baby boy, Zion, and with the two children so close in age, Lisa and Barbs find themselves spending a lot of time together - in one house or the other while tending to the kids, or just talking as they sleep in their cribs or on the carpet of whatever room they are in. Barbara has finished the mural in her living room, but as of yet she doesn't have many furniture to speak of. What she does have is a thick carpet in fantastic colors and some pillows and a chair. For her, furniture doesn't feel like the most important thing anyway. As long as her studio is functioning, and her jewelry making station is in order, the only thing she really needs is a record player where The Byrds, Dylan, Rolling Stones and The Byrds mix with the jazz she used to listen to at Fort Robles on the turntable. But as...