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Now, more than 20 years later, she’s ready to set the record straight.
“They were really lovely people.
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[The woman who owned it] wanted to retire.
I thought for the oldest occult shop in the country, that’s a tragedy.
I thought, what a shame this is going to be turned into a Chinese restaurant.
So I bought it and put some work into it and helped it survive.
That has taken on its entire own mythology that’s essentially out of my hands.
What can you do?
I’m not involved with that shop anymore.
It was a very long time ago.”
“I learned about it through coming to this film,” Balk says.
