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The Prestidigitator

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Rick Wayne
Jul 16, 2021
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When Ten Dollars was twelve, he went to see the Prestidigitator for the first time. His mother put him in the front seat of a Dodge Dart with no seatbelts and put his little brother in the laundry basket in the back and drove a good five hours it seemed (it was forty minutes) to Big Lick, where the Prestidigitator lived in a plain yellow house at the co…

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