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JAY SANKEY LIKE YOU’VE NEVER BEFORE

SEEN HIM —
FILMED LIVE IN FRONT
OF A STUDIO AUDIENCE
WITH THREE
BROADCAST-QUALITY
CAMERAS
 M I C H A E L A M M A R
EASY TO
VOLUME 1 — Our journey begins with one VOLUME 3 — This is the real work on
of the newest, most fascinating genres in all of storing, transporting and accessing the
magic—the incredible invisible elastic thread invisible threads you’ll use for any type of
created by DuPont and patented in 1959. effect. The majority of this information is
You’ll discover what it is, where to find it, and being revealed here for the first time in any

MASTER
the amazing things you can do with it, includ- format, and represents ideal solutions for
ing Finn Jon’s killer application—the invisible almost any close-up, stand-up, corporate,
elastic loops.You’ll create truly astonishing ani- bar or restaurant performer.
mations and levitations almost anytime, any- You’ll also find sources for invisible
place using this and other applications featured thread well worth the price of the video to

THREAD
on this video for the first time. anyone seriously interested in performing
Following this we look at the close-up magic with thread.You’ll see what types of
animating ability of visible, but hidden threads. thread are strongest, ranked in order of
This section contains the most practical, com- strength according to similar dimensions,
mercial method for performing Stefan and how to separate and secure individual

MIRACLES
Schutzer’s Self-Folding Bill ever revealed. strands of the finest invisible thread.
Then after learning the best of the classic Some of the information featured
magic for the stand-up performer using the here has previously been sold individually
Traditional Reel, including an amazing, visual for large sums of money.You’ll learn the
penetration of the mike stand, James George exact method Ammar used to perform the
joins Michael for an overview of one of the most
compelling inventions of the last 50 years—The
Invisible Thread Reel.You’ll see a complete
CLOSE-UP ANIMATIONS Floating Bill on The Tonight Show, as well
as the Steve Fearson Hookup, which cre-
ates what some of our greatest minds have
comparison of the wide range of I.T.R. gim-
micks, featuring full screen close-ups of how to
work with and reload this powerful gimmick.
& LEVITATIONS called the most amazing magic they’ve ever
seen!
Performance
Section 1 – Introducing Elastic Thread
Section 2 – Accessing the Threads AN L&L PUBLISHING PRODUCTION Floating Bill
The Super String Theory
Section 3 – Magic With Invisible Elastic VOLUME 2 — We begin with amazing ideas and applications of the James Section One - Thread Strength
Tahoe Tessie and the Magic Postcard George Invisible Thread Reel, which includes marvelously deceptive methods of According to Similar Diameters
The Rising Business Card passing a solid hoop over and around floating objects that are marvelously decep- Section Two - Securing the Ends,
Whirling Business Card tive. Also included are methods for working with threads from 6 inches to twenty Separating Individual Strands
Dan Harlan’s Financial Attraction feet long that create magic that people will talk about for a lifetime. Section Three –
Ammar’s Portable, Permanent Wallet Section 1 – Magic Using the I. T. R. Section 4 – The One Point Hookup Storing and Transporting
Hookup Finn Jon’s Mystery Nut and Bolt The Animated Straw Simple Playing Card
Section 4 – Finn Jon’s Elastic Loops ala I. T. R. The Coin in Beer Finn Jon System
Phenomenon Fork The Chop Cup Application Baker’s Card from Hat John Kennedy’s Z-Webs & Mini-Z-Webs
Finn Jon’s Bill That Falls Up Dave Nelson’s Dollar Bill Flight Whirling Card The Pin & Straw System
The Floating Bill I. T. R. Floating Bill Baker’s Ring on Pencil Sticky Mat Solution
Electrostatic Straw The Perfect Practice Hookup Section 5 – John Kennedy’s John Haar’s Deck Gimmick
Things That Affect Thread Visibility Open Face Hookup Stealth Retractor Clear Plastic Sticks
Section 5 – Visible but Hidden Threads Z Grip to Lock the Thread Ammar’s Threading the Needle Lifesaver Holders
Stefan Schuster’s Self-Folding Bill with Hoop Pass Care and Feeding of the Wine Bottle Hookups—
Kicker, featuring Ammar’s Self-Contained Rotating Hoop Pass Stealth Retractor Corks, Ribbons, Clear Tubes
Wallet Hookup Bloom’s Balancing Card Rising Business Cards Under-Bar Bobbins
Acrobatic Matchbox Robert Henry’s Ashra Coin Rising Card Mike-Stand Holders
Section 6 – The Traditional Reel I. T. R. Whirling Card Self-Turning Page Section Four – The Horizontal Two-
Knot Absolutely Instant Section 2 – The One-Hand Hookup Section 6 – Bonus Guest Star: Point Hookup Explanation
Knot Automatically Undone Al Baker’s Erectile Bill James George The Floating Bill
Clearly Penetrated Mike Stand Socrate’s Personal Chi Power The Floating Pencil The Super String Theory
Section 7 – James George Interview Section 3 – The LeClair Hookup Tips & Theory Section Five –
Comparing Every Available I. T. R. Floating Bill Why Threads Break and How To Avoid The Steve Fearson Hookup
Care and Management The Whirling Card Practicing with Threads The Floating Lifesaver
Controlling Your Space James George’s Floating Spinning Ball
The Hierarchy of Astonishment
No matter what type of magic you perform, from the purest sleight of hand to the largest grand illusions,
his is the type of magic that creates conversations and reputations. Continuing in the Easy to Master tradition,
this new set of videos is organized in a very structured fashion, taking the viewer from simple animations with
short lengths of thread that can be easily set up and managed through intermediate effects that are a bit more
involved and finally ending up with elaborate effects that are truly mind-bending.

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 THE REAL SECRETS BEHIND THE 3-CARD MONTE
WORKING SURFACES MISCELLANEOUS MOVES
To convey the value of the information
On the Ground Flushtration Count
you are about to learn, I believe that Tray Suspended from a The Rhumba Count
we can do no better than to quote the Leather Belt Around Neck The Chameleon Show
infamous S.W. Erdnase from his classic A Newspaper, Blanket or Double Lift
Coat Spread Across the Lap Double Lift Off the Face
book, The Expert at the Card Table— A Tray on a Stand
"But there is not a single card feat in THE GLIDE
A Man’s Umbrella
Variation #1
the whole calendar that will give as Cardboard Boxes
Variation #2
good returns for the amount of practice CARDS TO USE Variation #3
required, or that will mystify as greatly, Best Set
VERNON’S
Tip
or cause as much amusement, or bear OPTICAL MOVE
Impromptu Work
so much repetition, as this little game; Variation #1
PREPARING THE CARDS Scarne’s Monte Slide
and for these reasons we believe it Bridging the Cards
worth of unstinted effort to master it OTHER ROUTINES
The Crease
The Dai Vernon Routine
thoroughly." The S Bend
Stewart Judah’s Routine
The Simple Bend
Softening the Corners HOOKS AND COME-ONS
You will be expertly taught this amaz- One-Way Backs
THE MIX
ing effect by none other than Daryl— Scarne’s Revolution Move
The Standard Mix
the World Champion Magician's Bent Corner
The Slide
Scarne’s Crimped Corner
Magician. Daryl is one of the finest The Cascade
The Paperclip Routine
teachers of magic in the world today. Variation #1
THE THROW
He takes you through step-by-step The Toss
Variation #2 (Down’s Change)
instructions for many different 3-Card Variation #3
The Hype
Variation #4
Monte sequences and, if you need any Calling the Card Face Down
Variation #5
further convincing of the astonishing The Double Flash
Matchbook Variation
Fake Hype and Double Flash
reaction this effect gets, you are also Stamp
The Double Double Flash
Torn Card
treated to Daryl's live performances of Three in the Hand Toss
Torn Corner
two of the more famous routines. This Version #2
TURNOVER MOVES
video is both entertaining and invalu-
The Mexican Turnover
able to anyone interested in magic. SPECIAL SETS
Mexican Turnover as a Test
Seven Card Monte (Vernon)
The Mexican Turnover Top-
The Sucker Card Trick
Change Second Deal
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The Lady Vanishes
A Detachable Corner
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Now I know what they mean when they
routine with one
say, “I saw my life flash before my eyes!”
that is very simple
That's pretty much how I felt as I watched all
and easy-to-do.
three volumes of The Very Best of Jay Sankey
Watching the fin-
videos. After all, I've been performing many
ished videos for
of the routines on
the first time, I
these tapes for over
realized that this
ten years. Some for
L&L Staffers Leann Dyer, Tania Vasina, Scott Milburn “alternating struc-
over twenty years!
ture” also makes
The scripts, han-
for a more interest-
dlings, even the
ing series of expla-
rhythm of the effects
nations. Louis was
have been drummed
especially helpful
into my bones over
as a director during
thousands of per-
this part of the pro-
formances in almost
duction because,
every situation imag-
even though we
inable.
had already taped
And I mean, every situation imagi-
all day and well
nable. I've performed the magic on
into the evening,
these videos in restaurants, house par-
every time I
ties, product launches, trade shows,
expressed concern about taking too much
corporate events, movie theatre line-
time to describe some tiny detail of han-
ups, department stores and even in ele-
dling, he would always encourage me to
vators! (It was a one-day promotional
take as much time as necessary.
event for condominiums. A day with
As corny as it might sound, I have to
real ups and downs.) But as experi-
admit that I was really impressed with
enced a performer as I am, nothing
Louis’ commitment to making the very best
could prepare me for the marathon
videos he can. The guy doesn't compromise
L & L video shoot! I have to admit, I
and he really does take care of every little
was more than a little curious to see how
struck by the variety of material. I don't mean detail! In fact, during my stay in Lake Tahoe,
the live audience, the film crew and myself
that in a prideful or boasting way, but when Tania, Leann, Mac and Scotty all seemed to go
were going to deal with the daunting prospect
planning for such a Herculean shoot, I knew out of their way to make me feel totally wel-
of taping just under 40 sleight-of-hand rou-
that varying the effects, props and presenta- come and looked after. (Even little Petie let
tines, back-to-back! (And that's just the per-
tions as much as possible was one of the keys me scratch his belly!) I’d like nothing more
formances, let alone forty explanations!)
to keeping the audience (and myself!) as than to take the lion’s share of the credit for
But as it turned out, not only did every-
engaged as possible. So on the tapes you will the success of the video shoot, but surrounded
thing go extremely smoothly, I had an
have the opportunity to see me perform mate- by such considerate, generous and friendly
absolute blast! Thanks to the friendly, talent-
rial with cards, coins, dollar bills, paperclips, folk, my guess is that anyone would be at
ed and extremely professional film crew, I felt
spoons, rubber bands, pencils, finger rings, their very best! My sincerest thanks to every-
relaxed and “all pistons were firing” from the
staples, chopsticks, pay envelopes, keys, one involved!
very start. Louis as well was a fine director
paper matches and even Band-Aids! Whew! P.S. Speaking of generosity, Louis has
and an extremely generous host. But to my
I also have to admit that while watching been kind enough to allow me to invite you to
mind, the people who deserve the most credit
the tapes it hit me just how LONG I've been visit www.jaysankey.com! The site features a
were the audience! They were truly nothing
creating sleight-of-hand magic! Whenever I parade of exciting new tricks, videos and
short of amazing! That was one long, hot
am working on a new move, effect or presen- innovative products, as well as postings of
shooting day during which more than a few
tation, I am completely focused on that one FREE routines, complete articles on the art of
cards were “selected.” But each and every
thing. And so, for the last twenty-five years, magic, and an intimate (but not too intimate!)
time I began an effect or finished a routine,
I've really just been working on one thing at a photo gallery! I post new stuff all the time, so
that small-yet-mighty audience was 100%
time, focusing on this or that “tree,” seldom be sure to drop by!
there for me! And as hobbyists and pros alike
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The Very Best of One of Close-Up Magic's Very Best! “I've been making my living with this material for over 15 years.”— Jay Sankey

the It's all here! The wildly original plots, the ingenious handlings and the off-the-wall presentations.A grand total
of thirteen die-hard Sankey classics. Professional, "real world" stuff you can really count on under almost any
performing conditions! Audience-tested effects with cards, coins, bills, rings, spoons, matchboxes and more!
Diehard Opener: The opening card effect Jay ALWAYS does for real people!

very Twice As Nice: Jay's super visual revamping of a pasteboard classic!

Identifying Features: Killer "in the hands" magic with a borrowed bill!
Forgery: The card routine that spawned an army of variations!
Erdnase Aces: The sneakiest application of the Erdnase color change ever!

best Smuggler Aces: A super clean "open travelers!"

Prediction Impossible: As direct a card trick as you can imagine!
Mexican Jumping Coins: A "knuckle buster" worth every once of effort!
Stirring Silver: The ultimate effect with a spoon and borrowed ring!

of Nest Egg: This organic "nest of boxes" effect even fools magicians!
Skin Deep: Jay's "pros only" two card transposition routine!
Just Joking: A sandwich effect featuring two outrageously original moves!
Stuck Up: A signed card impossibly appears between two stapled cards!
Learn an astonishing range of innovative killer techniques such as the Illogical Cut, Le Paul's Hop Spread,
the Butterfly, the Top Change, the Pointing Transfer,Tenkai Pinch, the Two-for-Three Count, the Erdnase Color

JAY
Change, the Revolution Count and more!

“Never before have these effects been explained in such detail.”— Jay Sankey
If it's eye-popping magic you want, you've come to the right tape! Nobody creates sleight-of-hand magic
FOR THE EYES like Jay! This video features a power-packed parade of thirteen startlingly visual "magic
moments." Not to mention, more than a few big belly laughs! (Oops. We mentioned it!) Watch Jay per-
form and teach astonishing routines with cards, coins, bills, envelopes, rubber bands, paperclips, pencils
and even chopsticks! But we warn you: be prepared to laugh!
Clipped: Super-clean linking paperclip effect!
Unleaded: A pencil, a rubber band and a whole lot of magic!
Mental Breakdown: A mentalist's dream! Bold and utterly baffling!

SANKEY
Sankey's Choice: A self-working demonstration of mind control!
Broken English: The writing on a chopstick changes to match a card!
Three Times Lucky: An insanely direct "three predictions" card routine!
Messiah Vanish: A bare hands vanish that will leave you open-mouthed!
No Jacket Required: Think "open travelers" with COINS!
Traveling Expenses: An ingenious "bill switch" routine!
Greed: Jay's powerful walk-around "bank night" effect!
Please Don't Feed the Cards: Featuring Jay's "pop-up triangle!"
Back in Time: Many pros swear by this version of "triumph!"
Switch Places Aces: A full-length, song-and-dance card routine!

FREE INDIVIDUALLY Learn a wild array of fresh techniques, including: the Himber/Sankey Count, the Flying Shuttle,
the $100 Bill Switch, the Topper move, the Turnover Pass, and Jay's renowned switch, the Wichita Slip.

AUTOGRAPHED “These are the routines that originally ‘put me on the map’
in the magic world.” — Jay Sankey
This is your chance to watch one of magic's most off-beat entertainers perform thirteen of his
POSTER* OF JAY "bread & butter" routines for a live audience. And because the effects are presented in groups of
two and three rather than individually, this is also a unique opportunity to learn from the overall
flow of a live Sankey performance! Sit back, grab a pack of cards, order a pizza and get ready for the
WHEN YOU BUY time of your life. Welcome to the delightfully magical world of Jay Sankey!
Collect Me Not: A "collector's routine" with an unbelievable ending!
Fiery Reunion: An extremely clean torn and restored match!
THE SET FROM Ouch!: A Band-Aid visually appears on a signed card!
Parallel Worlds: Truly, a card trick for the "X-Files."
Fly By Night: Three staples travel from one card to another!

L&L Slipstream: Cards pass through each other like water!

Leaving Home: Jay's very popular key and string routine!
Ship in a Bottle: Bring a drawing on a playing card to LIFE!
Magnet Card: There is no escape from the "magnet card!"
Slick Splits: One of the easiest and most visual coin productions ever!
Mr. Clean Coins Across: The killer "new age" handling that started it all!
Card to Pocket: Jay's been wowing real people with this for over 20 years!
@#X!: Jay's folded card in paperclip is considered to be a modern classic!
Laugh, be amazed, and best of all learn fascinating sleight-of-hand techniques like Vernon's Substitute
Transfer, the Revolution Count, the Two-Way Toss, the Erdnase Color Change, the Topper Move, the
Tenkai Pinch, the Tent Vanish, the One-Hand Top Palm and the Mercury Card Fold!

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(American VHS or PAL, overseas customers please specify)
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 ed in the on-screen menu. To that end, L & L
Publishing’s DVDs are meticulously indexed and user
friendly, enabling the user to access any part of the
disc.
Whether it’s a performance segment to show
your friends or an explanation portion that you’ll
want to watch privately to really get that move
down, you’ll find no easier way to get there than our
DVD menus.

the MYTH 4: OUR DVDs DON’T TAKE ADVANTAGE

OF MULTIPLE CAMERA ANGLES
While many DVD users aren’t even aware that

Myths and Facts

the technology is capable of switching between
mulitple camera angles (if the programming supports
the feature), those that are have questioned why it
hasn’t been utilized in L & L Publishing’s magic
instructional videos.
The answer, which may seem self-serving, is

About quite simple; our videos already feature the absolute

Our
best viewing—and learning—angle. During each
shoot, careful plans are made, particularly regarding
the explanation segments, to ensure that the viewer
sees precisely what is needed for the best exposi-
tion of the concept in question. Perhaps

DVDs the best example of this are the “Super

Practice Sessions” that have made
Michael Ammar’s Easy-to-Master videos
such huge successes.
In truth, even the major movie studios
haven’t made much use of the camera angles feature
MYTH 1: OUR DVDs ONLY PLAY ON U.S. of DVD, with only a handful of titles on the market
(REGION 1) MACHINES that utilize it. (There is a movie industry that has
While it’s true that because movie studios want made extensive use of multiples camera angles on
to control the home release of movies in different remastered DVD, but let’s just say that they don’t make the kind
countries for any number of different reasons (the- to a digital of movies you’d show at the church social.)
ater releases aren’t simultaneous—a movie may source. So, even
come out on video in the U.S. when it’s just hitting though the original MYTH 5: OUR DVDs ARE JUST “BURNED” ON
theaters in other parts of the world, etc.), they recording was done via an A COMPUTER
required that the DVD standard include codes that analog process, the current remastered videos are Nothing could be farther from the truth. L & L
can be used to prevent playback of certain discs in the absolute best these videos have ever, and will Publishing utilizes a team of video production pro-
certain geographical regions. Each player is given a ever, look and sound. fessionals at every step in a project’s development -
code for the region in which it’s sold and a player from the initial shoot, to editing, to the production
will refuse to play discs that are not coded for its MYTH 3: THERE ARE NO MENUS ON OUR of the final product.
region. This means that discs bought in one country DVDs With DVD, the production of the final product
may not play on players bought in another country. This particular bit of misinformation was due involves three basic steps: encoding, authoring
However, regional codes are entirely optional for the to an uninformed reviewer’s idea of what a “menu” (design, layout, and testing), and premastering (for-
maker of a disc. Discs without region locks will play was. To DVD users, a menu is the screen that matting a disc image). Authoring and pre-mastering
on any player in any country. It’s not an encryption appears when the disc begins to play. This is the costs are proportionately the most expensive part of
system, it’s just one byte of information on the disc main navigational screen that gives the viewer a DVD. Video and audio must be encoded, menus and
that the player checks. L&L Publishing’s instruc- number of options, which usually include watching control information have to be authored and encod-
tional DVDs are totally region-free and will play in the programming from the beginning or jumping to ed, it all has to be multiplexed into a single data
any DVD player in the world. a sub-menu where a particular portion of the pro- stream, and finally encoded in low level format. This
gramming can be selected to watch. Bonus features entire development process utilizes systems costing
MYTH 2: OUR DVDs ARE JUST COPIED FROM such as trailers (in the case of most commercially- hundreds of thousands of dollars.
THE VHS SOURCE available movies) or photo galleries (as featured in So, in the final analysis, whether it’s Max
All of the videos that were shot at L & L many of our DVD products) can also be accessed Maven’s videoMind, Daryl’s Encyclopedia of Card
Publishing’s production facility after 1997 were all through the menu. Sleights or any of our other DVD products, you can
recorded and edited digitally. Thus, the VHS and A number of DVD movie titles included a card be sure that each disc has the same technology
DVD sources are the same—a pristine, digital, state- inside the keepcase that listed the chapter stops in behind it as your copy of Armageddon, Titanic, or
of-the-art master. the programming. This is what our reviewer friend any other Hollywood blockbuster.
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Eugene Burger makes it clear why he's one of the world’s most celebrated close-up artists. Then, he’s joined by
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close-up magic that is offbeat, whimsical, and decidedly strange. This journey begins with a Flash Spirit
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Eugene’s personal handling on Glorpy). Eugene’s version of Al Baker’s The Card in the Hat leads into a
detailed discussion of advanced thread technique. Jeff then shows what happens when Mark Twain meets
Robert Neale, as he performs and explains The Five Gifts of Life. A darker humor is on display when Eugene
teaches Phil Goldstein’s The Wagers of Sin. And finally, there’s a thorough analysis of Matt Schulien’s superb
Corner in the Glass.
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a powerful mystery. More ominous themes are considered in Robert Neale’s daring Last Dream. To conclude
this encounter, Eugene discusses the thinking that led to the creation of two of his most requested routines,
which he also performs: The Inquisition, his wickedly dark take on Roy Walton’s Card Warp, and
Shakespearean Thread (or, as Max Maven insists on calling it, “Vishnu Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”), an
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SNOWSTORM BY JAY SANKEY. The INSTANT MAGICIAN!
magician makes a quick sketch of a FROM KEVIN JAMES’ IMAGINATION UNLIMITED.This is a wonderful audi-
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and suit of a previously selected card! The signed card is then magical junk drawer.This version also has a feature where you begin by show-
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the exact time the spectator has just mentioned.The ingen- that is believed to be haunted. He shows his audi-
ious mechanism of Watch & Wear does not interfere with its ence a souvenir from this house—a large brass
normal operation as a regular watch so you will be able to bolt with a screwed on nut. He places it on a table
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magician displays a hotel actually feel the ring through the handkerchief and is told to hold onto it
key card which is placed tight.,The performer removes a small locked wooden box from his case
face down in full view on or under the table and places it in the center of the table in full view. He
the table. He then intro- hands the key to the spectator and asks him to drop the ring into the
duces many different hotel advertising matchbooks, reading wine glass.The ring is heard to clink as it is dropped into the glass.The
the names of a few of them aloud.A participant is invited performer immediately whisks the handkerchief from the glass and the
onstage and asked to choose one of the matchbooks from a ring has vanished.The spectator is asked to open the locked box and
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STICKYFINGERS BY DAVID
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derful active optical illusion that is under your freely choose a card.Though barely able to grasp the deck, you mystically will the card to vanish
complete control at all times.You can make it and to reappear inside the fingertrap, rolled tight as a Monte Cristo.The card may be signed and
blink once or as many times as you like.You can the fingertrap examined beforehand. $25.00
utilize it to perform any of the six included rou-
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eye is easy to perform.You can have fun with it remove three red cards and three black.The cards are openly
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 CELEBRATION OF SIDES PSYCHOKINETIC SILVERWARE BY GERRY &
THE NONSENSE WORLD OF ROBERT NEALE BANACHEK
WITH MICHAEL WEBER If you really could bend metal with your mind . . .
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