"I can't believe that she's allowed so many rights considering what she did," Bisicchia said. "It's really surprising, 'cause she has a job and she's enjoying my extensions."
Meanwhile, inside the Starbucks in Napa, the former International Area Studies major ordered a drink before she went into the back of the store to put on the trademark green Starbucks apron.
Before she began to work behind the counter, Kirsch straightened up the café area. She pushed in chairs, picked up trash and tidied displays.
Behind the cash register, her voice stood out. "Good morning, what can I get for you today?" she'd ask many a customer.
Her enthusiastic smile and chipper personality kicked in for everyone.
When told of Kirsch's life in California sunshine, alleged victims of the Kirsch/Anderton swindle were beyond annoyed.
"I'm just shocked that she appears to be living guilt-free out there," said a a 22-year-old Penn alum, an alleged victim who requests anonymity. "It's amazing to me, but not surprising based on her history.
"Life goes on for her, but it's falling out from underneath her, but she doesn't show it," the victim said.
Her former boyfriend, dumped by Kirsch after she met Anderton through some mutual friends in September 2006, said her life "is kind of a shame."
"She kind of aimed high," said Drexel alum Jayson Verdibello, 22, who met Kirsch through the social networking Web site Facebook. "She wanted to be a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. . . . She's talented, beautiful and she had a lot of things going for her."
Still, he reflected, "I want to make sure the people that were wronged get restitution."
Kirsch may still aim high, but she dwells in Napa in relative obscurity.
There's a sign in the Starbucks promising a perfect drink every time and it's signed by store employees in different colored chalk.
Most staffers signed their full names in small cursive writing.
Not Kirsch.
In big block letters, in key lime green, she wrote only her first name. No last.
She made yellow chalk stripes over her name and drew three small circles over the first "o."
Her name was apart from the others.
At the bottom.
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