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People are afraid to merge on the freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city. Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as her car drives up the onramp. (9)
Not the fact that I'm eighteen and it's December and the ride
on the plane had been rough and the couple from Santa
Barbara, (9, 14) who were sitting across from me in first class, had gotten
pretty drunk. Not the mud that had splattered the legs of my jeans, which
felt kind of cold and loose, earlier that day at an airport in New
Hampshire. (9, 20, 63,106)
Beverly
Hills (12, 22-3, 54, 57)
Later that night, when the two of us are sitting at the
end of the darkened bar at the Polo
Lounge, not a whole lot is said.
"I want to go back," daniel says,
quietly, with effort.
"Where?" I ask, unsure.
There's a long pause that kind of freaks me
out and Daniel finishes his drink and fingers the sunglasses he's still wearing
and says, "I don't know. Just back." (17-18, 140)
Melrose (18)
Sunset Blvd. (19, 22, 38, 41, 61)
Westwood
(19, 25, 46, 51)
Fatburger
(19)
The Edge [club] (20)
Hollywood Boulevard (22)
Neiman-Marcus (23)
Jerry Magnin (23)
MGA (23)
Camp Beverly Hills (23)
Privilege (23)
La
Scala Boutique (23)
410 N. Canon Dr
Beverly Hills, CA.
(310) 550-8288
Tahoe
(25) 
Du Pars Restaurants & Bakeries (26, 136)
12036 Ventura Blvd
(26) Studio City, CA 91604-2608 USA
1.818.766.4437.
Universal Studios (26)
Blair tells me that Muriel was hospitalized for anorexia today. "She passed out in film class. So they took her to Cedars-Sinai which is not exactly the closest hospital to U.S.C.," Blair says in a rush, lighting a cigarette. (26-7, 42, 80)
Calabasas (28)
Santo Pietro (30) Italian Restaurant
Holmby Hills (30) Elite neighborhood
Carney's (30)
Parachute (31)
Wilshire Blvd. (33, 41, 49, 61)
Palm
Springs (36, 42, 61 etc.)
TOP
Rome (37)
Mulholland (39, 61)
[San Fernando] Valley (39)
Century
City (41, 53)
TOP
McDonald's inSunland 
(44)
Cafe Casino in Westwood (46, 49-50)
Morton's [Steakhouse] (50)
Cafe Casino in Beverly Hills (50-51)
Fred Segal (54)
beach club (59)
Pajaro Dunes in Monterey (59)
Santa Monica (61)
Beverly Glen (61)
Sepulveda (61)
Ventura (61)
Sherman Oaks (61)
Click
Map
Encino (61)
Tarzana (61)
Woodland Hills (61)
Sambo's (61)
New York (63, 155)
"Chili from Chasen's..." (64-67,106)
The Garage reopened somewhere on La Brea and Blair
drives to La Brea and then down La Brea and then up and then down once more
and she can't find it. Blair laughs and says, "This is ridiculous,"
and pushes in some Spandau Ballet tape and 
turns
the volume up. (107)
The Florentine Gardens (108)
The house is on Bellagio and I wonder what Bellagio means as I pull into the wide, circular driveway and a valet attendant opens the door and as I get out of the car I can see Finn wrapping his arms around Julian and Lee and they walk through the open front door before me (180).
from 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
BELLAGIO, a town of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Como, about 15 m. N.N.E. by steamer from the town of Como, situated on the promontory which divides the two southern arms of the Lake of Como. Pop. (1901) 3536. It is chiefly remarkable for the beauty of its scenery, and is a very favorite resort in the spring and autumn. Some of the gardens of its villas are remarkably fine. The manufacture of silks and carving in olive wood are carried on.
"Listen, ross has found something in the alley behind Flip."
"What?" Rip shouts, interested.
"A body" (185).
"The shopping district of Melrose Avenue became known as an underground rock and artist district throughout the '80s, marked by stores such as Poseur, Vinyl Fetish, Soap Plant and Flip." (Store History of Retail Slut)
