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Philly's first pay-what-you-can restaurant is open. Why is hardly anyone eating there?

Matso Baatarkhuu, 28, moved to the United States from Mongolia last fall on a scholarship to study creative writing at Temple University. He's new to this country - but, due to a gap in the disbursement of his stipend, he encountered a phenomenon deeply familiar to impoverished Americans: end-of-the-month hunger pangs.

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