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Friday, August 31, 2012

Texas magician convention opens downtown

It's just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, Uncle Sam-certified dollar bill. Or is it?

Gene Protas manipulates the greenback and, suddenly, there are two. Next comes a little fancy folding, a dash of razzmatazz and then, astoundingly, his hand holds two fives. After more faster-than-the-eye-can-fathom folding, Protas is right back where he began, holding a solitary, wrinkled buck.

Anybody can turn $10 into $1, you may think. Or, you may conclude the financial hocus-pocus is something Protas picked up during his 20-plus years as a banker. In both cases you would be wrong.

This is magic.

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