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I’ my traditional aenerous dollop of whipped creaa I heard The dead girl Your ood week, are you?"

"It could be worse," I say "At least I still have ives da’s wearing the dining systereen lab coat with the words "Made Fresh Daily!" stitched over the left breast The uniforda’s bleached-blond hair and dark eyebrows The green isn’t doing anyone on the dining staff any favors, but it goes with the health and wellness progra to convince the students it’s offering--though to be honest, the food hasn’t really changed, only the presentation

Fortunately Magda’s boss, Gerald, can’t dictate what she does with the rest of her appearance, so Magda’s pinned a towering cascade of artificial blond ringlets to the top of her head, painted her long nails litter), and thrust her feet into a pair of old kitten heels

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I set down h I’ is froh She’s soft, like butter, and sazine once while getting a pedicure and happened upon an ad featuring a sada Magda smells exactly like Beyoncé

"Thanks, Magda," I say as she squeezes ht"

"I know it is," Magda says, releasing me "I wanted to make sure you know it is too Jiuys behind the hot serving line, startling hi orientation week "Heather’s here Where is that bagel I asked you to save her?"

"Oh, Magda," I say, eet oneels earlier, see?" She points at the bagel basket over by the breakfast buffet, next to the cutting board where the butter, jaroup of orientation kids, going to the Cloisters for the day But I ot it Jimmy!"

Jimmy, as in the middle of a text conversation on his cell phone, puts the device away and snaps to it, slicing a bagel he’s been hiding for da is only in charge of the ID scanner at the door, but she’s ruled the dining hall like a queen for years

"Thanks, Mags," I say to her, truly thankful as I eye what had formerly been the waffle bar but is now the Fischer Hall "fresh fruit spa water bar" (today’s options are waterot etically "I’ to stay relatively the same size I hen they measuredI’ve been doing lately, they’ll have to start over, and they’ll never finish by next da yells at Jimmy, who shoots her an annoyed look because he heard

"Thanks, Ji the toaster’s fiery red bars "Maybe I’ll have sorapes or soda raises a skeptical eyebrow "Grapes are nice, I guess"

We stroll toward the salad bar, which, in the updated cafeteria, is featured front and center The luten-free options, which is lovely for those students who enjoy eating vegan and gluten-free, but horrible for people like ether in sandwich forda says

"That’s what the ator thinks it could have been," I say "She won’t know until after she gets the tox screens"

"Poor little da refers to all Fischer Hall residents asthere, a scene froe Mutant Ninja Turtle ’s penthouse, andup froton Square Park in a feats of turtle daring high above their heads

Magda was a teenager herself at the tirated from the Dominican Republic, but it left an indelible i can happen A scene from a movie could even be shot at your place of work, and you could become a movie staror at least a tiny blob in a crowd scene in a e mutant turtles who are also ninjas

Maybe that’s why every day since she’s dressed for work as if a fil in and cast her in his next picture You just never knew

"How’d you hear about rapes froed bunches by the "Fruitopia"

"Patty textedher s it at old spangles "She texted all the bridesry with that little sister of Cooper’s--Nicole--for what she did, inviting yourit, sending those extra invitations, I said, ‘Don’t do it Heather won’t like it’ But she kept saying, ‘Oh, no, she will Heather has so few people co, and my brother has so many It will be a nice surprise My dad will pay for it’ I thought, well,your ine that would be a nice surprise"