GoFundMe is now the backbone of American comeback stories. But the people with better connections get lifted up first<\/p>\n
I love my landlord. I don\u2019t mean that I find him charming, though I do. I mean I moved on to a swath of dirt in Los Angeles county with three ancient cabins on it, and over the course of six years, went from pleasantries in the driveway to saying: \u201cLove you Jeri, bye!\u201d on the phone.<\/p>\n
When I moved into one of the rickety structures on his unlandscaped property in Topanga Canyon, one of the last hippie enclaves just north of the Pacific Palisades, I was the latest in a very long line of tenants. It was a bucolic slice of land and it had to be, because without the scenery, you would notice the three cabins were one good gust away from falling down the cliff.<\/p>\n
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