December 18, 2022:
Although the mom was more ebullient than the rest, I can't say I genuinely liked any of them. Entitlement, arrogance. Where the oldest brother reeked of jock-becomes-lawyer machismo and the younger daughters of princess-in-waiting Mean Girl pettiness.
I always wondered what she thought. Sleeping in a house in Spring Valley with a family of possums underneath and a backyard of tall weeds. La Jolla poolside it was not.