When I first moved to LA, I signed up for an acting class where I met my first group of friends. All aspiring actors, and all moving to the city around the same time, we found solace in each other’s company and friendship in a city where it’s hard to come by. Everyone in my class was straight – and at the time, so was I. Over the years, we all kept in touched, catching up over lunches here and there. Lorelei, a gorgeous, slender, bombastic, spitfire Brit, was one I always was both enamored and amused by because of her infectious hilarity. She had that Julia Roberts quality, where from afar, you had that feeling that if you just met her, you know you’d be instant friends. Well I did meet her, and we did become instant friends, much to my excitement. As she and I had brunch one…