When Nicole Cardozo was a little kid, her mom and dad took her to see something special.

I remember the first time I saw a magic show, I must have been four, five. I was young.

Like a lot of childhood memories, the details are hazy. It was during the holidays, she thinks maybe at a mall, but there was definitely a Santa

and an old magician. He was wearing a suit. It was velvet in a hat. And the trick that stood out

was at the end of the show when the magician pulled a rabbit out of his top hat.

The moment this white buddy came out of this black hat,

I was like, sign me up.

This seems like the coolest job in the world.

A lot of little kids want to grow up and become something extraordinary.

An astronaut, a professional hockey player.

And Nicole actually made it happen.

Nowadays, she is a professional magician, touring around the country, performing sleight of hand.

Do you pull anything out of a hat?

I don't.

I really also don't wear hats.

The top hat is not necessarily like my kind of vibe.

But she respects the heck out of that classic trick.

I mean, Google magician and one of the first images that pops up is a guy in a top hat with a wand and a bunny.

Pulling a rabbit out of your hat, it's an idiom for doing something impossible. Like,

it really does feel like magic. If you, for example, see your card go into a deck and then

disappear and reappear, you could be left wondering like, oh, they probably have two cards.

But when you look at a hat and it's empty and then you see a full live breathing cute bunny sniffing and you can go

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