Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

Happy Valentine's Day. And welcome to Year 2 of Done and Done and the beginning of our season of Notorious.

We're getting into all the high society and all the front row true crime cases of our man Nick this season,

not necessarily connected by any geography, but connected by the spider webs.

Get your passports ready, darlings.

We're going to be going on quite a journey.

This week, however, to open our season, we're going to start a little closer to home,

a little closer to our narrator. We have covered in past episodes the fascination that Dominic Dunn

had with the Woodward case when he was in New York City. Also, his fascination with the Patricia

Burton-Lonorgan case when he was sneaking out of boarding school

to get all the juicy scoop news. But if we travel back just a little bit further to Dominic Dunn's

first decade, we get a whole lens on Dominic that will in some way chart his life's trajectory. It is a nine-year-old

Dominic Dunn who has a faded and fabled visit to Los Angeles to visit his Aunt Harriet. And

Dominic arrives in Hollywood as a nine-year-old, already knowing a lot of things.

But also on this trip, he begins to comprehend some things, too, at a pretty early age.

So many prophecies and Easter eggs to come as we introduce this season of Done and Done.

Let's investigate. Let's investigate. Dominic Dunn says it best in the introduction of his pictorial memoir, The Way We

Lived Then, Subtitled, Recollections of a Well-known Name Dropper.

I'm going to be reading from The Way We Live Then about the most amazing trip our nine-year-old Nick takes to

Hollywood. When I was nine years old and growing up in Hartford, Connecticut, a city that I knew

from the age of four would not be the city of my life, my aunt Harriet, my mother's sister,

a maiden lady, as well as a former Catholic nun who quit the convent,

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