Though she’s more accustomed to hearing “Can You Tell Me How To Get to Sesame Street?,” the question Sonia Manzano is responding to more these days is “You’ve retired from Sesame Street?”
Yes, sweet María, TV wife of Luis, with whom she runs the Fix It Shop on America’s best known street, Sesame Street, is exiting the stage of Big Bird, The Count and Elmo and many other Muppets, where counting and learning new words and life lessons is done in song and skit.
For Manzano, the number is 44. She’s been with the show since the 1970s and has been bantering with Oscar the Grouch, picking out objects that are not like the others, and teaching generations of children, and some adults with the hearts of children, some words in Spanish.
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What was your favorite memory of Maria on Sesame Street?
