Eve Babitz is also the author of Eve’s Hollywood and six other works of fiction and nonfiction. She still lives in Hollywood.
The day I was 18, Sally and I had a reunion because we were still friends though we saw less and less of each other. We went to Pupi’s, a place devoted to cake, overlooking the Strip. I invited her to this surprise birthday party my mother was giving me that night (though she would never do anything so unforgivable as actually surprise me; I hate surprises).
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