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REALL News"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense." -- James Randi
| Volume 6 Issue 1 | January 1998 |
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Confessions of a Tarot Card ReaderA book excerpt by Lindsay E. Smith and Bruce Walstad Thomas Dobrowolski is low-key, well-dressed and conservative. He works in one of Chicago’s largest banks. He’s definitely not the kind of guy you’d expect a woman would chase into a parking lot, begging him to tell the fortune of her pregnant daughter. Yet that’s exactly what happened following one session of reading Tarot cards at a neighborhood fair. We interviewed Dobrowolski during a magicians’ convention in Madison, Wisc., in October 1987. Q. How did you first get involved in this, Tom? A. I got a call from an agent asking if I could do Tarot card reading and fortune
telling. I said I could, but at that time, I had no experience at all. So when I booked
the show, I went to a local magic shop and bought a deck of Tarot cards and a book. This
was about a week before the show. I studied for maybe a night, and made notes on how to
read the cards on a piece of paper. |
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