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Magic of Miracles

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“I was watching ‘House,’ or one of those medical dramas, and the story involved a young child, and I was just playing around with a deck of cards, practicing some stuff, and I realized that I’d been doing magic since I was 8 years old and had been performing for friends and family, but I wasn’t really using it for anything other than entertainment,” said swimmer Chuck Katis, who started a nonprofit called The Magic of Miracles.

Swimmer comes up aces

A top competitor, he also performs magic for sick children

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DateDecember 1, 2011April 11, 2019