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    The Half-Priced Hypnotist
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  • September 14, 2010
    I am a Birthday-Party Magician in a Midwestern Town
    by Ben Greenman
  • December 9, 2008
    Nineteenth-Century Magic Secrets Revealed
    by Will Bailey
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