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Instead of the traditional party — and an accompanying feast of pizza, papusas and other Mexican and Central American delicacies — students handed in their borrowed instruments Friday and quietly said their farewells.

"Things would be a lot different had I still been on dialysis," the 27-year-old pizza chef said.

“Eat a hot dog. Have some pizza. Like any other guy in Chicago on the South Side.”

Noemi Ciau visited Westchester Hand Wash on Sunday to drop off a pizza to her husband, who works there as a cleaner.

It became the people’s dressing: a dunk for baby carrots, a drizzle for pizza, equally at home next to a pile of atomic-red buffalo wings or a crisp wedge.