Unlike other drugs, acid involved a degree of forethought and unselfishness: users were advised to take it only among friends in comfortable, familiar surroundings, and had an obligation to provide mutual support if adverse reactions set in. For George, as he later said, this one-to-one caring and sharing finally broke down the barrier he felt had existed between John and him since he first joined the Quarrymen. “After taking acid [we] had a very interesting relationship. That I was younger or smaller was no longer any kind of embarrassment with John…. [He] and I spent a lot of time together
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