Laura’s early interest in magic

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trying to

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track her down we all need to say thank

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you to This Woman This extraordinary

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woman for proving her point so

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incredibly well around the same time

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Laura was a little girl and she was

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struggling at

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school I was six I was diagnosed with

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ADHD my mom had no idea what to do with

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me you know I was sent to a special

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Clinic where the doctor told my mom

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you're never going to do well in school

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you're certainly not going to hold down

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a proper job and so they encouraged her

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to find something creative for me after

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seeing a magician at a birthday party at

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the age of six Laura found that creative

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release all of the kids were just having

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the best time ever and I thought what a

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wonderful thing to do you know to be

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able to put smiles and all these faces

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yeah that's that's that was me so when

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my mom picked me up I was like that's it

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that's what I have to do I have to do

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this women in Magic have historically

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been confined to certain roles the

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assistant is a classic example but

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there's also a long history of women

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being associated with sorcery and

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witches but young Laura growing up as

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the daughter of a nightclub owner was

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unaware of such stereotypes I had no

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idea that there was an issue with women

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in Magic at all until much later because

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in my mom's nightclub she booked faay

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Presto another woman so unlike many

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parents who