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As I was prepping the turkey on Thursday I was pleasantly surprised by a segment in NPR’s Morning Edition on Alice herself. They told her story and interviewed her and a number of her friends. It sounds like she was a little older than the youngsters who gathered around her and she took it on as her mission to help them out. She said that she gave a job to anyone who asked for one, because she knew if they were asking for a job they needed money, so she gave them a job. I had always wondered if she had felt taken advantage of by the merry pranksters who gravitated to her or is she wanted to care for her wayward flock. It sounded like she did enjoy helping people who needed some help and guidance in their lives, and she said that somehow she always found the money to help people. The infamy from Arlo helped; she was able to make money selling Alice’s cookbooks and other things, but she ran a successful business for many year

She’s in her 80s now and in poor health. Some of the people who she helped when they were young put together a Go Fund Me page to help her out. It was really a nice segment. I was happy to have heard a little about Alice herself.