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The question haunting this book is whether an author so private that she revealed her breast cancer diagnosis to just two friends — Alice and Calvin Trillin — would have wanted her intimate, unedited reflections to be shared with readers.

Alice Lynn, of Pacific Palisades, said that while struggling with the limitations and loss that come with aging, she is now a witness to the trampling of ideals at the core of her existence.

Perhaps no bumper sticker accomplishes what Evans describes better than “Keep Honking! I’m Listening to Alice Coltrane’s 1971 Meteoric Sensation ‘Universal Consciousness.’”

This year’s Showhouse is set in the 15,000-square-foot Monterey Colonial estate originally built for Harry Bauer, CEO of Southern California Edison, and his wife, Alice Bauer, board chair of the Los Angeles County Arboretum.

Disorder broke out across the country following the fatal stabbing of Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga event in Southport in July 2024.