A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Only 16 [May 7, 2007]]

Only 16 [May 7, 2007]]

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Late in 1962, my mother decided we’d outgrown Playa del Rey. She and my dad bought a house in a new development between Sunset and Topanga Blvds. up the hill from Pacific Coast Highway, very near to the future site of the Getty Museum. I was miserable. I’d just finished my first semester at Westchester High School, where I was a nobody, if the king of m…

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