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Airline steward Peter Johansson never actually left the Chelsea since he never actually
lived there. But he did keep in touch.
PETER JOHANSSON
Later on, when I came as a flight attendant to the States—to the Chelsea—I
would always give everybody a phone call. Of course I would still give Nicko a
call. We were never able to actually connect again when I was in New York, but
I would draw these little doodles on a slip of paper, or write these little messages
on it, and ask the people at the Chelsea's front desk to put them in his mailbox.
Neicy's “Just say no thank you” to drugs friend Therese Zucal was less sanguine about her
years in the Chelsea.
PAUL VOLMER
When I talked to Therese just recently, she said she wished she would have gone
out and seen New York more. All she did was go to work and then come home
and hang out in her Chelsea room. Because we had this cozy little world, this
room in the back of the hotel, and we had created this womblike social atmo-
sphere. In a way, I felt gratified when she said that because I had always been
trying to protect Neicy and Therese at the time—they were younger than I, in
their early twenties. Neicy, in fact, was eighteen. I was in my early thirties. So I
guess I protected them well enough.
But unlike Therese, the rest of our Bohemian comrades, in spite of their dismaying ends at
the Chelsea, had few regrets.
ROBERT CAMPBELL
I've seen people that were famous, I've seen celebrities, and I have realized that
my dream was an empty dream—bullshit. So my dreams of being a rock star
ended. Plus, I'm not as talented as I thought I was.
I feel like I went to the edge, and found out that it was meaningless. I want to
be a square now.
DIMITRI MUGIANIS
A lot of lost opportunity, but it was incredible. I lived so much. I lived so much.
PAUL VOLMER
My eleven-year stay at the Chelsea was a little like Alice's stay in Wonderland,
full of freaks and drugs. I learned more about freaks and drugs than anyone
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