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How the L.A. Lockdown Opened a Young Man’s Heart
Protect, distract and nourish - without frightening - were my pandemic parenting instincts as the L.A. lockdown loomed.
“I have a small tummy. I’m going to have to take the rest of this back to my apartment,” my son Harrison told me as he picked at his whipped eggplant at Elephante Beach House Restaurant two stories above Santa Monica. I wondered if maybe his stomach was actually more nervous than small because he had just moved to Los Angeles to attend law school in the midst of a pandemic. During the week I was in L.A. to help Harrison logistically transition Mayor Eric Garcetti, day-by-day due to the data tightened the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.