My L.A. Story

That's not a bear at the end

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I don’t remember much about the Steve Martin film L.A. Story, except that there was a road sign talking to Steve, who played a weather man, that said, “The weather will change your life twice.”

It stuck with me because later I realized that September 12 would change my life twice. The one in 1996 was the day I defended my…