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28 Balancing Act When I was a kid I saw Indian fakirs on a TV show. They could stand on one leg for days, weeks, maybe even years. Me, I couldn’t even walk a rail on the train tracks for more than a few seconds. How, I wondered, how to hang on like that? Then it hit me, the trick, the willful gift of forgetting I had two legs. ...

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