"I got my burritos, walked out to the parking lot decorated with brightly colored pennants and string lights, and wondered, inanely, whether places like this would continue to exist after tonight."
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"He’s as good as dead,” they said. “A vegetable.”
They were talking about a man we knew from church. I didn’t know him very well, though he was one of those figures that had always existed on the periphery of my childhood.
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Things were new and exciting, and I explored every neighborhood I could, going to strange LA salons and tastings and tours and hosted dinners, in part so I could tell my friends about them later, finishing each story with, “It was soooo LA.” I felt great about my agency, and by god, I was really living.
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