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MAGIC IS IN YOUR MIND! BY EVER ELIZALDE All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form f orm or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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INDEX
A WORD IN 10,000…………………………..4 I.S.W.H………………………………………..14 NO LUCK NEEDED…………... NEEDED………….........................20
MANOEDA …………………………………..30 CALLING DETECTIVE MANOEDA!.............37 RUSSIAN ROULETTE MANOEDA………....39 E.S.PREDICCIÓN..............................................41 THE END………………………………………51
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EFFECT:
The magician proposes a mind reading experiment using a book. He calls a woman on stage and gives her his business card, which has a hole cut out in the middle. The volunteer uses the business card to freely focus on a word from the book. After she has one word, the magician shows he predicted that word in an envelope, which was on view the whole time. METHOD:
Any book can be used. You need a small gimmick to perform the effect. No, ed or gaffed in any way. the book it’s not gimmick ed Actually, your business card with a hole cut out in the middle is what will allow you to perform this miracle.
To make your gimmick you will need: 5
-A book (any book) -A business card (preferably your own) -Glue stick -An X-Acto knife Follow the next instructions with the aforementioned items. Step 1- Take your business card and lay it face up on a cutting mat or cutting surface. I’ll illustrate it to you
with my own business card. With the x-acto knife cut a semi rectangle in the center of the business card. See where the yellow lines are on the following illustration. That’s where you will cut.
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You should end up with something like this: You now have a little tab. Fold it upwards and backwards until you “break” the
fold of the tab. Take the book and choose a page near the end. Choose a word that you would like to force and, using the x-acto knife cut a square of the same size of the tab you just made. Step 2 -
For example, let’s say the book is “The “ The most incredible songs of all time” time” and you go to page 196. Let’s say this is the page
196 of our hypothetical book. Let’s say you want to force the word “Sympathy”
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Look at the next illustration to see exactly where you would have to cut. You would have to cut where the red rectangle is. You would end up with something like this:
As you can see, the word that stands out the most is “Sympathy”. This is just an example of course. Look
for a word you wish to force in your own book and cut it. Step 3 – 3 – Paste the rectangle you just cut out from the
book on the tab you cut cut on the business card. Like this:
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Step 4 – Fold
the tab all the way to the back. The business card, card, from the front, should look look like this:
From the back, it should look like this:
That’s the gimmick. Put this in your pocket or place it
in the book you are going to use. You are now ready to perform. 9
Propose to perform a mind reading experiment. Bring out the book and say something along these lines: “If I’d ask you to think of a word, that word would
probably be influenced by your surroundings. You might think of a chair or a table or something predictable. That’s why why we are going to use use this book.
You are going to choose a page from this book using this [take the gimmicked business card out careful not to flash its back ] See this window here? This is going to help you focus on one word at a time. But first, tell me a number between 1 and 300 [ The number of pages will depend on your own book . Let’s say your participant calls out the number 140]
Ok, let’s open this book at that book… excellent.
Please come beside me. If I place the business card here on page 140, you can see through the window a lot of words passing by as I pass the card through the book, right? You are going to choose a word sight unseen. I’m going to cover the window with my hand… I’m just going to slide the business card
through the page. Just tell me to stop whenever you want. 10
When you cover the window with your hand, you place the business card at the bottom edge of the page. The tab (which is on the back of the business card) will get stuck to the page. When you move the business card up, the tab will automatically get in place. The following illustrations should make it clear. Let’s say this is page 140:
At this moment, when the card is near the bottom edge of the page like in the illustration, you put your hand on it, covering the window. Now, when you move the business card up, the tab will automatically get in place. See the next image. image.
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When moving the business card up, the tab gets into position as you can can see. This is exposed view, at this moment your hand would be covering the window.
Ask your participant to say the word “Stop” whenever
she likes. When she does, lift your hand a little bit to let her see the word she stopped you at. She will be looking at your force word. Ask her if there is a word she can see clearly. She will say yes. Close the book, leaving the business card inside and put the book aside. You have successfully forced the word “Sympathy”. Now you can either go and read her mind or have the word inside an envelope and show your prediction to be correct. An amazing amazing miracle, a word in 10,000! 12
CREDITS:
I saw Banachek do something similar many years ago. He used a ring instead of a business card.
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EFFECT:
The magician writes a prediction down on a business card and places it face down on a nearby table. He takes out three coins of different denominations from his pocket and asks his participant to choose one. He then asks his participant to hide that coin in any of his hands. The participant can switch hands as many times as he likes and yet, the magician is able to say know exactly where the coin is. Finally, the magician shows his prediction. He predicted not only which hand the coin was going to be hidden, but also what coin the participant would choose! choose!
METHOD:
There are two methods going on here. The first one is a magician’s choice and the second one is a
mathematical principle. Let’s deal with the first method first. 15
In performance, take out one of your business cards and write the following prediction on the back of it:
Let’s say that the three coins you have in your pocket
are a penny, a dime and a quarter. To match your prediction, you need need to force the Penny. Take out the three coins and lay them down on a table, in a row. Now say this to your participant: “Here are three coins; a dime, a penny and a quarter. With your right hand, please cover one of the coins” coins ”
If your participant covers the Penny, you say:
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“Great! You could have chosen any one of the three coins, but you chose the Penny. We are going to play a game with it”
If instead he covers one of the other coins, you continue: “…and with your left hand, cover another another coin”
Now, if he let the Penny Penny uncovered, continue: continue: “Do you want to change your mind? Excel lent, lent, those are eliminated. The only one you left uncovered is the Penny. We are are going to play a little little game with it”
If he covers the penny and an indifferent coin, continue: “Great! Pick those up and I want you to give me one. Which one do you want to give me?”
If he gives you the Penny, say: “Do you want to change your mind? Excellent, you decided to give me the penny! We are going to play a little game with it” it”
If he gives you the indifferent coin, say:
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“Do you want to change your mind? Excellent, you decided to keep the penny! We are going to play a little game with it” As you can see, “all roads lead to Rome”. No matter
how it goes, you are going to force the Penny. That’s it for the first method. Now let’s get into the
second method: No matter what, your participant now has the penny. At this point you have to notice if he is holding the penny with his right hand hand or with his left hand. hand. Now say: “We are going going to play a little game. I want you to think of a number from one to five. Any number. Do you have one? Excellent. Excellent. I’m going to turn my back. When I do, I want you to switch the coin from hand to hand as many times as the number you are thinking of. Do it now. Are you done? Great. Let’s make it a little bit harder! Switch hands as many times as the number you are thinking of again! Are again! Are you done? Excellent!” Excellent!”
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At this point, the coin will be exactly in the same hand as it was before your participant started to switch hands! If your participant was holding the coin in his right r ight hand, then it will end up in the right hand. If it was in his left hand, then it will end up in his left hand. Try it! BUT! To match our prediction, the coin must end up in the right hand. If at the beginning he was holding the coin in his right hand, then you are done. The coin will end up in the right hand. If at the beginning he was holding the coin in his left hand, we need to do something extra. After your participant has switched hands as many times as the number he is thinking of twice, say: “And just to go crazy, switch only one time” The coin is now exactly where we want it to be… in your participant’s right hand! Now just ask him to
make a fist with both hands so that we you turn to face him you will have no idea where the coin is. Except that you do, and you have a killer prediction! 19
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EFFECT:
The magician asks his participant to name three random words and then focus on one of those three words. The magician shows that he predicted that word. METHOD:
The “out to lunch” principle and a variation on the
mathematical principle that we used before! Follow the next instructions. Take one of your business cards, hold it in portrait orientation and fold it in half. The printed side of the business card should be in the inside. Now you have a folded business card which is blank on both sides. Open the business card back up and, on the blank side, write the following message:
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The lower half of the business card is left blank for the time being. After you have done this, fold the card back in half just as you did before. The printed side of the business card should in the inside and what you’ve written
should be facing away from you. You should be looking at something like this:
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Next, take a stack of around 10 of your business cards and wrap a rubber band around them. Like this:
And write the following message in the lower half of the top business card of the stack (the one that is facing you, like in the above image) You should have something like this:
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Now, insert the folded business card (the one you prepared before) under under the rubber band, like like this:
As you can see, stack looks completely normal but now we have the prepared business card folded and ready to be used. Start the routine by asking your participant to name three random words. Let’s say, for the sake of explanation, that the words are Cheese, House and Shoe.
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You now take the stack of business card prepared with the out to lunch principle and write those three words on the upper half of the business card, like this:
Show it to your participant. Now, pretend to write this: “Random Words” on the lower
half of the business card. In reality, you will write the second word mentioned by your participant, in this case, the word “House” Like this:
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Take out the second business card (the one where you wrote the list of words) and give it to your participant. Everything looks exactly as it should.
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Now, on the stack you you have this. Which Which is, a business card that, that, when unfolded, will will look like this.
At this point your participant is holding the card with the random words he named. Put the stack of business cards in your pocket (the folded prediction still there) And call attention to the list of random words your participant is holding. Say: Say: “Is there any reason why you thought of those words? They just popped into your mind? Interesting.
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You are going to choose one of those words at random. When I say of the word “random” a pair of dies always pops into my mind. Imagine that you have two dies in your hand. Shake them in your hands and let them roll! Look at that! They both landed on the same number! What number is it?” Let him answer. Let’s say he says the number “ 3” Four… they both both landed on the number number four. That’s six! six! Good, a random number, right?” It doesn’t matter what number he says. By adding both numbers we always get an even number, and that’s all
we care for. Now, using the pen, pen, count the words until you you get to, in this case, the number six. To better explain this, look at the following pictures!
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As you can see, no matter what the number is. As long as it’s an even number, it will always force the word in
the middle! Now you’ve successfully successfully forced the word “House” “House” and
you have in your pocket a stack of business card with a folded and accurate prediction. Just put your hand in your pocket and palm off the prediction. Now you can produce it from a wallet or just from your pocket. This routine has got me booked a lot of times! Have fun with this and use it wisely. 29
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WHAT’S MANOEDA?
Manoeda is the name of a “which hand” style
of routine that I released about two years ago. The effect is simple: You play the classic coin in hand game with your participant, but harder, for there will be no coin at all! Everything happens in your participant’s mind. He
can hide an imaginary coin in any of his hands or in his pocket and yet you are able to know exactly where the coin is! I’m going to explain the basic method and then I’m
going to give some never-before released ideas to take Manoeda away from the “which hand” realm and into
other types of routines. I hope there will be something here for those who have never heard about Manoeda and for those who have bought it in the past two two years. Without anything else to add, please follow me to the next room!
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EFFECT & PRESENTATION:
The magician selects a random spectator to help him. Have you ever played that game where you hide a coin in any of your hands and someone else tries to guess where the coin is? is? We are going to play that game. However, it is going to be a bit more difficult, as we’re
going to play with an imaginary coin. Here, take this coin. ( Pretend to give him a coin) I’m going to close and cover my eyes , and you’re
going to hide the coin in any of your hands. Or! You could hide it in your pocket and leave your hands empty, trying to fool me. And once you’re done, I want you to extend both
hands with tight fists in front of you, just as if we were playing with a real coin. And please don’t do anything
that could give away where you decided to hide the coin. Are you ready? Good. Close your eyes and cover them with your hands
Done? Perfect, I’m going to try to find out where the
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To do that, I’m going to ask you a very simple Yes/No
question. You can answer me with the truth or with a lie; it’s completely up to you. I’m going to try to read your mind to know if you are being truthful or not… This may not work if you’re not willing to help me, so let’s work together.
Are you ready? Good. The first question is …Is the coin in any of your hands? h ands? -Yes. Interesting… Ok, I’m feeling something… but I can’t quite discern what this is… Ok, I’m going to ask you
one more question. To get a stronger feeling this time, if you lied to me in the first question, lie to me again. If you told me the truth, tell me the truth again...Just don’t do anything that may give you away. Let’s see…Is the coin… in your left hand?
-Yes. Hmmm…All right… It certainly is a bit clearer now;
this feeling is getting stronger and stronger. You are doing wonderful! This is the last thing I need you to do… If the coin is
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was in your pocket just put it in your left hand. This is just to make it a bit more more random. Have you done that? Good. When I snap my fingers, I want you to mentally tell me where you have the coin. Don’t say anything out loud and don’t give me any clues, just think about it.
(Snap!) One more time… (Snap!) Interesting, I can see that the coin… Is not in your…pocket… It’s definitely not in your… right hand… and I’m a 100% sure that the coin is in your
left hand! The participant agrees!
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METHOD:
As you may have (or have not) already guessed, the secret lies (pun intended!) in the two questions in which the participant can either lie or tell the truth. We’ll put a value to the spectator’s answers: Yes = 1 and No = 2
You just have to do a simple addition and you will know everything you need to know! If your participant’s answer to the first question is “Yes” in your head you’ll think “ think “1” If the second answer is “ No” In your head you’ll think “2” and then you just have to do the math: 1 + 2= 3. If you get a “3” it it means that the coin is in your participant’s right hand. This is sure fire.
You heard that right! If, after you’ve done the math you get a 3, you instantly now where the coin is! you
could end the effect here. If you get any other number ( 2 or 4) it means that the coin is either in your participant’s left hand or in his 35
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so you can be 100% sure the coin is NOT in his right hand, and you will take advantage of that fact.
As soon as we know the coin is not in his right hand, continue: “Hmmm…Al right… It certainly is a is a bit clearer now; this feeling is getting stronger and stronger. You are doing wonderful! This is the last thing I need you to do… If the coin is in your right hand, put it in your pocket, or if it already was in your pocket just put it in your left hand. However this is is ju st to make it a bit more more random”
This script allows you to force the coin in the participant’s LEFT HAND. And now you can reveal it in any way you like. If you wish to predict where the coin is going to be, you should always predict that is going to be in the LEFT HAND. And that’s basically it. Now that you know the basic method, let’s look at
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EFFECT:
The magician proposes to play a role game with the participant. The magician will play the role of a police detective and the participant will play the role of a master mind criminal. Ask your participant to name three different places in two, where he might have hidden millions of robbed dollars! You, as the super detective that you are, find out whether your participant is lying or not in order to find where the money is hidden!
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METHOD:
You will use the Manoeda principle again. Instead of using the Right Hand-Left Hand-Pocket locations, use the locations named by your participant. Let’s say your participant names the following
locations: The Beach, Walmart and The Park. In this case, the questions would be like this: “Is the money in The Beach or in Walmart ?” ?”
And then: “Is the money in The Beach? If you get a 3, that means the money is in the beach. If you get a 2 or a 4 that means the money is either in Walmart or in the park . In that case, ask your participant to change the location of the money! “If the money was in the beach, hide it in the park. If it was already in the park hide it in Walmart!”
That script forces him to hide the money in Walmart! Just remember: First location is Right Hand. Second location is Left hand and third location is the Pocket. 38
EFFECT:
A participant hides an egg under one of three cups. The cups are numbered at the top (1, 2 & 3) The magician reads the participant’s body language to
know where the egg is. The magician smashes two of the cups, leaving the egg intact! METHOD:
In this case, cup number one = right hand. Cup number two = left hand and cup number three = the pocket. The questions you should ask to find where the coin is are:
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“Is the egg under one of these two cups?” While
pointing at cups number number one and number two. The second question should be: “Is the egg under this cup?” While pointing at cup
number one. Again, if you get a 3, it means the egg is under cup number one. If you get a 2 or a 4 it means the egg is under cup number 2 or under cup number 4. If you get 2 or 4 continue: “If the egg is under cup number 1, put it under cup c up number 3… or if it was already under number three put it under cup number number two”
That script forces cup number 2. Once you know exactly where the egg is, smash the other two cups, leaving the cup with the egg intact. Just one more thing… Do not perform this with spikes or knifes. Don’t be silly. If your participant gets confused with the answers you’ll regret it. Play safe. 40
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EFFECT & PRESENTATION:
Asks the magician, “Do you know what these are?” – Asks while lying five Zener cards on the table. “These are commonly named ‘Zener cards’ and they were created back in 1920 by J.B. Rhine and Dr. Karl Zener. They were used to prove the existence of Extra Sensory Perception, and right now you are about see how. Please, take the cards face down and give them a good mix. The idea is that nobody knows which card is which. In the meantime, I am going to place this little and mysterious envelope here on the table, for the future. Have you done that? Excellent. Hand me the cards, please. Just to be extra fair, take a look at the back of the cards… as you can see, they are completely opaque and you cannot see through them.
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I’m going to deal the cards facedown, one at a time, and I want you to say the word ‘stop’ whenever you like”.
Start to deal the cards until your participant says the word “stop”. “Right here? Perfect. Please, take a look at the card At this point the magician turns his you stopped at” – At head away, to avoid seeing the card . “Once you’ve seen the card, commit it to memory and place it back, facedow facedown.” n.”
When your participant places the card back, the magician puts the cards he is holding on top of the cards on the table, ‘losing’ the participant’s card in the
middle of the stack. “Now that was completely fair, right? You mixed the cards, you stopped at the card you wanted, and now you have a symbol in your mind. Which, by the way, only you know.
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Please keep that symbol in your mind; it will be important later on. Now, we will get into the second phase phase of the test . J.B. Rhine and Dr. Karl Zener assigned a number to each symbol:
The square, it’s a one. The star, it’s a two. The wavy lines, it’s a three. The cross, it’s a four. And the circle, it’s a five. Right now you are thinking of a symbol. Think of the number assigned to your symbol. Remember: square one, star two, circle three, wavy lines four and cross five. Now you have a symbol symbol and a number in your mind.
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For example; if your number is one, deal one card. If your number is two, deal two cards. cards. You get the idea. I will look away as you do this”.
Now your participant will deal as many cards facedown as the number he is thinking of. “Have you done that? Good. Set aside the card you stopped at, still face down, and put the rest of the cards together. That way when I turn back, it will be impossible for me to know how many cards you dealt.
Turn to face your participant. Done? Excellent. Excellent. – – Turn Let’s recap. You mixed the cards, and selected a symbol at random. Then you used that random symbol to select yet another random symbol… which is this.” Turn the participant’s card face up to see what symbol he dealt to. Let’s say it’s The Cross. “The Cross. Interesting…
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Remember the little and mysterious envelope I placed on the table? Please, open it and show everyone what’s inside…”
Your participant opens the envelope and inside is a Zener card… amazingly enough, it’s The Cross. “Oh, and you haven’t told anyone what your first symbol was, right?”-You right?”-You take out your wallet and remove a Zener card face down. “What was it?” Let’s say it was The Star. You slowly
turn the card face up and it is The Star.
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You need five marked Zener Cards. Give the cards to your participant and ask him to mix them. In the meantime, you place the “little and mysterious” envelope on the table.
This envelope contains a card with your force symbol, in this case, The Cross. 46
Take the cards back, and say: “Just to be extra fair, take a look at the back of the cards… as you can see, they are completely opaque and you cannot see through them”.
As you say this, pass cards from the top to the bottom of the stack, apparently showing the cards to be completely opaque. What you are doing is, in fact, looking for The Cross (The cards are marked, remember?) r emember?) When you find The Cross, place it on the bottom of the stack and proceed as follows: “I’m going to deal the cards facedown, one at a time, and I want you to say the word ‘stop’ whenever you like”.
Start dealing the cards on the table, and as soon as your participant says the word “stop” you say “Are you sure?” and look at the mark of the card he stopped
at. At this point you know the identity of the card he stopped at, in this example, The Star. 47
You must also take note of how many cards are left in your hand. This is important, as you will see in a moment. Turn your head away and ask your participant to take a look at the card he stopped at. Once he has committed the card to memory, ask him to put the card back and replace r eplace the stack. Turn to face your participant. Next you proceed like this: “J.B. Rhine and Dr. Karl Zener assigned a number to
each symbol: The square, it’s a one. The star, it’s a two. The wavy lines, it’s a three. The cross, it’s a four. And the circle, it’s a five.
Right now you are thinking of a symbol. Think of the number assigned to your symbol. Remember: square one, star two, circle three, wavy lines four and cross five.” 48
This part is important. Here, you need to remember the identity of the card your participant stopped at a moment ago, let’s say
THE STAR, and how many cards were left in your hand, let’s say TWO.
When you are assigning numbers to each symbol, just assign the number two to The Star. If the card your participant stopped at was the square, and there were three cards left in your hand, then you would assign the number three to the square. I hope I’m making myself clear on this.
Proceed as follows: “Now you have a symbol and a number in your mind.
Here, take the stack and deal, one at a time, as many cards as the number you are thinking of.”
This, of course, will force the second card down in the stack, which is The Cross (in this case) Now you can show show your prediction to be correct. 49
Let your participant react. And remind him of his first selection. “Oh, and you haven’t told anyone what your first symbol was, right?”
Take out your wallet as your say this. Here you will be using multiple outs. You just have four different Zener symbols in different compartments of your wallet. Since you apparently don’t know your participant’s first symbol, there’s no heat on the wallet. Just take
out the right out, and put the wallet back in your pocket. “What was it?”
Slowly reveal your prediction. End of the routine.
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THE END!
If you’re reading this it means you have finished the
book! (Or that the book was so boring that you skipped to the end!) Either way, I want to thank you for purchasing this little piece of my mind (you did purchase it, didn’t you?) you?)
Each effect inside this book I’ve used many times in real performance. They are my babies and I’m sure
you will take good care of them. If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions or you would just like to chat with me, I’m always
available at
[email protected] [email protected].. I hope you enjoyed at least some of the effect I decided to teach you. I put in a lot of work into some of this stuff! I’m really proud of the final product.
Take care of yourself and, as always, until next time! Ever Elizalde, January 14th 2017.
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