In November of 1963 a magician came and performed live show at my school in the middle of the cornfields of Indiana.
That is all it took to get me started as a student of magic.
For Christmas that year my parents bought me a magic kit. I made a poster for myself using the design from the cover of that magic kit.
(Now you know my real last name. I took the name “Hart” as a stage name. My mother was a descendent from the Hart family.)