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My younger sister, Kate, often came by the house and parked in front when she went to the beach. She was dating a doctor who was also a Grateful Deadhead with an extensive library of live recordings, which I had been borrowing a few at a time for several months. Kate was excited about the upcoming tour. Through her doctor friend, Doc, she was connected to a vast network of other Deadheads. She herself was “a Dead virgin,” and looking forward with great anticipation to her first Dead concert.
She had extra tickets for me if I wanted to go. Two shows, at Hampton, Virginia and Morgantown, West Virginia.
“It’s pretty much worked out,” she said. “We get to Charlotte and park the car. Pick up another ride there.”
“That’s it?”
“That’s it,” she said. “How do you feel about driving Gloria to Charlotte? Think she’ll make it?”
“If it doesn’t rain,” I said.
“My car’s too small. So is Doc’s.”
“It would be better if we had windshield wipers,” I said.
“You’re kidding, right?” said Kate.
Be sure to return tomorrow for the final chapter of Doing the Dead – 1983, “Daybreak on the Land.”
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