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The eyes of others

As I stand here writing this column, I’m also mentally pacing my office working through the lecture I’m going to give in two hours. Heart racing. I really should have written this las night.

Like any “performer”, I have a set of canned shows I can pull out of the bag if I need to. One of these readymade talks is about magic, and I take the

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