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First you should know that Mr. Wilson has an accent. I was trying to place it because I had heard he works out of Los Angeles. I figured he might be from the Valley or perhaps Santa Monica but I wasn?t sure. Then he told us he was from Glasgow. I thought he meant the Glasgow that?s north of Bakersfield off the Grape-Vine but he was talking Glasgow, Scotland. He spends time in both the land of beauty and the land of beautiful people. I did genuinely feel like a dope that I couldn?t place his accent but I had heard he was from L.A. so maybe that?s why.

Mr. Wilson began with a variation on Three Fly ? I think that was the name, he has an accent. It was a fantastic study in misdirection. To demonstrate the effect he used regular-sized coins. The moves are slow, not awkward and the final vanish was so smooth and natural that I was blown away.

To teach the effect, Mr. Wilson used jumbo coins for what…
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