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We have spoken to an eight-year-old autistic pupil who was repeatedly locked inside seclusion rooms at a different school while aged five.

A flashback shows the pair arguing over their living situation; he’s enthusiastic about relocating the family to the farmhouse, and she’s preemptively suffocating from seclusion’s effects on her work as an artist.

In other words, on a matter of top national security concern — U.S.-Russian relations — a “cone of seclusion” was created, effectively leaving it to the two presidents to make decisions in secret.

“The concerts help me to escape whenever the seclusion of working on an album becomes too much,” she says in Spanish that sounds just as melodious as her singing.

For some, Altadena’s draw has been the seclusion it offers, nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, straddling the line between urban and wild.