Pursuits
The First Amendment Protection of Fortune Tellers
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A 65-year-old woman named Michele Zlotkin walked into a sparse, peach-colored Boca Raton, Fla., storefront that advertised psychic readings. It was just over a year ago and she had recently retired from teaching elementary school. For the first time in 40 years, she didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life. She wasn’t married, didn’t have children, and her elderly mother lived in New Jersey.
“I thought, well, I have to start a new life,” Zlotkin says. “So when I passed this store that said ‘Spiritual Healer’ and ‘Psychic’ on the front, I stopped in, thinking they could help.”