BL … that’s Singer Family Language for “Before Linda” … before I was born. BL is when my parents met Laurie’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.
Both couples lived on Sawtelle Boulevard, in an apartment complex with other newlyweds. All stayed friends over the decades, even as they moved to various corners of Los Angeles.
The G family moved to Pacific Palisades (PacPal, as Laurie called it), we went to West Los Angeles. We saw one another for weekend visits, at one home or another. As I was growing up, I knew how to navigate to 2 places … the “back roads” to LAX since my dad, as owner of an import company, traveled regularly. The other was to Laurie’s.