Nancy, Sean and Hound-dog III.
Frestonians were, beneath the veneer of pragmatic anarchy, from different cultures. There were the hippies, idealists of a sort; and the punks, nihilists of a sort. And the itinerant street people, whose lack of youth and lost chances gave them a thread of bitterness to chew on together. For them, there was no dividend of satisfaction from how they lived. It was survival, plain and simple.