According to one co-worker, Mira's hard work and energy caught the eye of Marvel Comics executives, where she interned during college. "She's extraordinary," says Lisa Vahradian. "You can tell when someone's special."
Mira remains in New York City and is currently searching for an apartment with a friend. She started a summer position with Marvel last week and could not be reached for comment.
By profiling only four students from Van Nuys' 1996 graduating class, the Sunday magazine passed over Jennifer S. Koo '00 and Susan Choi '00--both Harvard applicants and, today, both Harvard graduates. Susan, now a psychology concentrator in Winthrop House, remembers declining to have her senior year chronicled for the world. "That was not appealing to me at all," Susan chuckles.
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In September 1996, Michele L. Woodbury '00 was in the backseat of a van, halfway from South Jersey to Cambridge, when she began reading a magazine article that a neighbor had clipped out and saved for her.
The name Maya Turre sounded familiar--and then it hit: "Wow, that's my roommate."
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