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    The Making of a Delusionist: Guest Post by Don Calame
    By Don Calame
    In Library, Perspectives
    Posted September 2, 2021

    The Making of a Delusionist: Guest Post by Don Calame

    It’s 1980. I am a twig-thin tween; my brother Robert a stocky fourteen-year-old. Robert is tying me to a wooden chair in my bedroom. He’s using a length of scratchy rope he found at the back of [...]

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