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Mrs. Breen Fondly Recalled by 'Missy's' Friends
Teacher made quite an impression on her middle-school students in the 1980s at St. Mary Immaculate School, then called St. Mary's Academy.
Girls with fond recollections of Melissa McCarthy’s Mrs. Breen have been forwarding their memories our way since she showed up right under our noses last month. Lynne Breen, now Lynne Mau, a second-grade teacher at Troy Heritage Trail Elementary School, became something of a shirt-tail celebrity when actress Melissa McCarthy told Plainfield Patch that she was her inspiration for the teacher role she plays on the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly. The young Mrs. Breen, just 23, was in her first year of teaching at Plainfield's St. Mary Immaculate School -- then call St. Mary’s Academy -- when she met the petite, bouncy fifth-grader everyone remembers as “Missy.” Like McCarthy, her classmates recall Mau as a pretty, stylish teacher who never made …
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