La Tour's oil painting "The Fortune Teller" (circa 1630) captures the onlookers' fascination with an exotic-looking gypsy fortune teller, but also a wariness.

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Also gone this year are Debra Messing's fortune-teller wardrobe of chunky scarves and sweater coats, the target of much online chatter.

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By the time they reunited in 1980, Bard says, his mother, Yolana, had become a wealthy fortune-teller.

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