The Trip to the Junkyard

Even though the story is far from biographical, the way that I first discovered a love for magic is exactly as told here in the book, with only minor diferences. First it was in Idaho, not Missouri. Another difference was that I was with my older brother Kirk, my little brother Stuart, and my father. Dad never had a saying about the "sap." But he often liked to say "one man's trash is another man's treasure." On a side note, I still have one of the books that I found in the trunk. It is titled Scarne on Magic. Dad really did turn the trunk into a green coffee table which stayed in the family. Ultimately, I believe that Kirk ended up with the trunk. Stuart and I ended up becoming magicians.

Ace

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