There Is No Free Love Left

So you’ll need to dig deep, Fellas

Audrey Wells
8 min readJun 4, 2021
Photo by DDP on Unsplash

As a child of the Free Love Movement, it’s been disappointing for me, now in my early 60s, to learn there’d be such a tall price to pay for all that love and all that movement.

Because from where I sit in the Game of Love, albeit up here in the cheap seats, my fellow men borne from the Summer of all that Lovey-Dovey resonated with the Free and the Movement part, but the Love?

What’s love got to do with it? They ask.

And to that I say, If you have to ask, Junior—you don’t deserve to play the game.

It was just before 8am on a sunny Sunday in Sacramento.

I was enjoying my coffee, perched in front of my laptop, cruising through my email, a daily morning ritual. But Sundays are special. They’re Fundays, amirite?

Instead of scanning my inbox to answer convos from Etsy, downloading shipping labels from Chairish, or bird-dogging my bank balance for overdraft protection alerts—Sundays are for The New York Times, The Washington Post, ‘fun’ Medium articles I’d been stashing throughout the week and all the other newsletters, quirky sites, and recipes I’d been savoring for my Sunday morning read.

Then suddenly my laptop started ringing, snapping me out of my Sunday a.m…

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Audrey Wells
Audrey Wells

Written by Audrey Wells

i’m on a quest. just like y’all. #WEareALLinTHIS2gether ❤https://audreywells.com/

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