She rented out the bottom floor of a two-story house
previously owned by prominent silent film actress Gloria Swanson. What used to
be a rec room for her landlord’s two sons—20-something deadbeat boys with a
penchant for pot and an enjoyment for loud arguments with their father—was now
her home. For Valentine’s Day, she baked the three men a rather
ordinary-looking apple pie, and they thanked her repeatedly. In return, one of
the laziest sons baked a huge and gorgeous blueberry pie with cutouts of hearts
and arrows in the top crust and proudly handed it to her.
