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The Price of a Flower

Produced by Narrative Lab · Idea by Baptiste

July 1967. Celia Moreno earns her rent altering fashionable clothes in a Haight Street boutique, surrounded by tourists, runaways, merchants, volunteers, music, and promises of a freer life. When June, an unprepared nineteen-year-old from Oregon, asks for work, warmth, and a safe place to sleep, Celia is drawn beyond the limits of her shop. Their crowded day carries them through the storefronts and aid networks of Haight-Ashbury, where every open door raises another question about belonging.

4 chapters · ≈ 5,343 words · ≈ 24 min read