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Byline: Mary Tannen
About five years ago I was sent to Los Angeles to write an article. My husband, Mike, had business there as well, and we went together. We landed at the airport, picked up the rental car, and got on the freeway, all in the half-conscious manner of a couple who commute regularly from New York to L.A. Only when we had exited downtown and found ourselves lost in futuristic glass-walled canyons laced with overpasses and bound by highways did the realization hit: It had been a very long time since we had been here.
In the days that followed, Mike went to meetings while I took the car and went about my task of tracing the life of Jay ...