#87. TOMIKA
She’s there many days. Quietly off to the side of the Arch. Sits low under a red umbrella with small blue and yellow balloons attached. At her feet is a small sign with a white palm drawing:
Fortune Teller – Palm Reading
How much you wonder? Nothing. She has printed in white chalk all around her feet: FREE. FREE. FREE. She offers a low red stool to potential customers so they can huddle knee to knee.
A young man takes the seat. She asks to see both palms together.
“Ah,” she begins. I can’t hear what he learns. Only he can say.
Why does she do this? Only she can say.
But she does tell me this: In five years, she’s talked to 6,000 people from 80
countries in Washington Square.
Believe it or don’t.
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