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hunter

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78. I could write many movie scripts about Santa Monica...

Fri May 1, 2015, 10:57 PM

May 2015

My great grandma owned a home there, sold in the 'fifties, but that's a historical detail. My grandma and her sister ran away to Hollywood as teens. My great grand mom followed shortly after to protect her daughters' honors. She was not successful. My great aunt had multiple Hollywood husbands, and my grandma graduated from UCLA and married a very eccentric Army Air Force rocket scientist.

The reason I was sleeping in my car was that I'd just returned from some very dirty desert evolutionary biology field work, stinky and dirty, and I didn't want to want to wake my girlfriend up too early.

My wonderful plan was to surprise her as her morning alarm went off and make her breakfast before she went to work.

Double plus fail. I got rolled by the police and my girlfriend was angry I hadn't called ahead.

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Here's what I read gollygee May 2015 #22

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