IT AIN'T US, BABE

THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE SUMMER OF LOVE, THE FLOWER CHILDREN'S KIDS ENVISION--NOTHING

This is a disgusting generation. It's a disgusting time to live in. It's boring," says Alexandra Lynn, who is 15 going on 25, as she languidly smokes a cigarette with a gaggle of similarly jaded teens in Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park on a sultry Wednesday night. "The '90s is an exhausted decade. There's nothing to look for, and nowhere to go. This generation really hasn't got any solid ground. I mean, the '60s had solid ground, but that's gone now."

Long gone. Thirty summers have flashed by since the Summer of Love. Back then, when I was a teenager, we...

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