Dorothy Parker said, “Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.”
Dorothy Parker. Blimey, what a life. From precociously calling her stepmother “the housekeeper” at the age of nine, to dying from a heart attack in her seventies and leaving her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… she never made life easy on herself. Her ashes sat in her attorney’s filing cabinet for 17 years until the NAACP finally took pity and gave her a proper memorial. Such was the fate of one of America’s finest wits.
Anyway, Ms. Parker’s assessment aside, Los Angeles also holds these mischievous little darlin’s — my nephews and nieces:
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Good-looking kids.