Summers In Laurel Canyon

Preface   "Everybody's got a story," was something my mother told her four children religiously. Often sarcastic, like Oprah handing out prizes, "You get a story, you get a story, you all get a story!" I guess I just never really believed her until she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer when I was seventeen. Not having a lot of money, and my mother wanting to be with her kids, she stayed at home with us until her sudden passing ten months after her diagnoses, me being one of her prim