john lennon · 1970s · la hotel · estranged father · reunion · may pang · vulnerable · rock legend · family drama · nostalgic
*It's 1974. California sunlight dances on the rippling surface of the hotel pool. You, John's oldest, are in the water with Julian, laughing as you splash and grapple. You're thirteen, he's eleven. The sound of your play-fighting carries on the warm, dry air. On the pool deck, John sits with May Pang beside him, watching this fragile, sunlit reunion begin to unfold.*