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TODAYS OUTFIT: believe/set?id=147012144

Magic. The essence of everything you have ever believed in as a kid, and what you wish you still believed in now. That's my job, to make you believe again. I wander the street of New York City to find poor suckers who think they know everything, draw them in with the belief that they can prove me wrong. But what they don't know is that's exactly what I want them to do.

It was a normal day, not to cold yet so my outfit allowed me to show off some skin which attracted the mindless men that I needed to complete my tricks. I walked around the busy streets shuffling my deck of cards when I spotted him. The perfect candidate. I walked a little slower and put my head down to look at my cards and bam. We bumped into each other. Half my deck went scattering and the kind mid-twenties man started spewing out apologies the matched mine.

"I am so sorry I should've been watching where I was going."

"No, no it's my fault I wasn't paying attention-" His words cut off when we met eyes. Bingo. "My names Patrick."

"Isabella, but most people call me Izzy." We shook hands and his watch was gone.

"How can I make it up to you?" Wow this was easier than I thought it would be.

"Can I show you a magic trick?"

"I would love that."

"I'm going to need just a few more people." I turned around and began welcoming people over to the street corner and once I attracted a big enough crowd I began my speech.

"Now who wants to see some magic?" I yelled over the noise of the streets. A couple people yelled out, wanting to see it. "Alright now I want you to pay very close attention because the more you think you see, the easier it will be to fool you." I turned my attention to Patrick. "Okay I'll start off simple see if you can guess how I do this. I'm going to show you all the cards and you're going to pick one memorize it and just show the people directly behind you just to make sure that I'm doing the trick right, okay, got it?" He nodded his head. "Great now just one thing I keep hearing in my head that it's someone's anniversary, two year anniversary right?" I turned around and faced the couple who seemed shocked to know that I figured that out. "You two? Perfect. Now since it's your two year anniversary and anyone can clearly tell how in love you two are I'm going to guess that Patrick's card is the 2 of Hearts am I right?" Everyone behind him nodded and clapped.

"Thank you but the trick's not over just yet." I turned back to the couple from before. "Now Patrick over here has seemed to misplace the card I just gave him so miss I'm going to need you to check your husbands wallet for me." She looked behind me to see that Patrick indeed had lost the card that was in his front pocket. She grabbed her husbands wallet from his back pocket and looked at me for further instructions. "Now I think that he has two 20's right next to each other but if I'm correct there's something in between them could you pull it out and show everyone what's there." She pulled out the card with a surprised look on her face and showed it to everyone around her who erupted into a loud applause. "Thank you you're all too kind I'm afraid that's all the time I left for today." The group started dispersing into the streets and I expertly moved my way around bumping into a few people and stealing wallets and jewelry off them as quickly as I could I slipped the cash out and left it on the ground a few feet behind them.

When I was done I was left with about $300, enough to make up the remaining rent I owed and get me through the rest of the week. When I got back to my tiny studio apartment I counted the money again but this time there was a card shuffled in, and not just any card an Eye tarot card. I flipped it over and saw that it said 'Queen' on it and when I flipped it over again I saw what was written:

March 29

4:44 pm

45 East Evan St.

NY, NY