So I left my business, my house, my friends and even my life companion as he kept the company running.

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"One of my best friends refuses invitations to my house to dinner on any Friday night, " Julie Sayres, a screenwriter who was another guest at our Malibu dinner party, told me.

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So for the first year, I rented out two of the bedrooms in my house to friends.

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But today, my friends, it is this House that is on trial.

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In the late afternoon, my friends called me from the restaurant Napoleon House in the French Quarter.

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At first, I opened my house, garage and back yard to friends so they could come over during their medical rehabilitations and work with my metal fabrication and woodworking tools.

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"I am afraid my ability to keep a reasonable house, to meet friends, to have a normal life - that, I think, will be seriously curtailed or stopped altogether", she told me.

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My friends weren't really good competition on my consoles, since their only practice was when they were visiting my house.

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My friends, when I was 5 years old, a car pulled up in front of our house.

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Anyway, so we bought this house, and right away I started going through the June Cleaver homemaking phase that all my women friends went through in their twenties and thirties while I was out rockin' and rollin'.

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