Mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?

The mirror laughed and then she said,

Don't you know that you're a long day?

You've crossed up to speak.

Stay tuned. I'm going to tell you about a mistake.

The mistake I made in high school.

And I mentioned here on Spook, I explored hypnosis back in high school.

It was fun, exciting stage stuff.

Had folk shouting out strange new languages, others jumping up to translate.

I started out using my brothers as test subjects.

Had them both barking like dogs, hilarious.

And later friends volunteered. We'd laugh, watching them suddenly hold their nose,

thinking they are smelling the worst thing ever. Good stuff, fun. And I'm a coil now.

I had no idea of what I was playing at.

He was barking like a dog.

That's all well and good.

That's chuckles and laughs.

But one day, I told Alex that he was going back in time,

back in time to when he was 10,

8, 4 years old.

And I gave him a pen,

and I asked him to write his name.

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