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So then when I get to work the next day, I can’t get a single one of them to co over

But there are a couple kids I’ve genuinely come to love, scholarship students who didn’t come to school equipped with a Visa that Mom and Dad are only too happy to pay off every month, and who actually need to work in order to pay for books and fees, and so will take the 4 PM–ht with a da whispers Only she pronounces it Haythar She is whispering because she doesn’t want the kids to knohat’s really going on Whatever it is "One of my little movie stars!"

"A student?" I can see people in the crowd eyeing Magda curiously Not because she’s weird-looking--well, she IS kind of weird-looking, since she wears enoughau naturel, and she’s got those really long nails and all

But since it’s the Village, Magda’s outfits could actually be considered kind of taet Every tida takes his or her dining card, runs it through the scanner, and sings, "Look at all the byootiful movie stars who come to eat here We are so lucky to have so many byootiful da was trying to flatter the many drama students--and there are tons, way o to New York College

Then one Fix Your Own Sundae day, Magda dropped the bomb that Fischer Hall is actually quite famous Not for the reasons you’d think, like because it’s on historic Washington Square, where Henry James once lived, or because it’s across the street fro Tree, where they used to execute people in the eighteenth century Not even because the park was once a ceent, so basically all those benches and hot dog stands? Yeah, they’re sitting on dead people

No According to Magda, Fischer Hall is fae Mutant Ninja Turtles there Donatello or Raphael or one of the turtles--I can’t actually re fro next door, and the kids in the building all acted as extras, looking up and pointing amazedly at the stunt turtle’s feat

Seriously Fischer Hall has quite an exciting history

Except that the kids who acted in the raduated and uess people think it’s weird that Magda is still bringing it up, all these years later

But really, you can see how the fact that a scene from a major motion picture was shot at her place of ould be, to sos that reat

But you can also see how, to someone who doesn’t know the story behind it, the whole "ht seem a little…well, wacko

Which probably explained why sooverheard her outburst

Not wanting the kids to catch on that soda by the arm and steer her toward one of the potted pines that sits outside the building--and which the students unfortunately tend to use as their own personal ashtray--so we can have a little privacy