This is me out walking with my ex-boyfriend, Bob Ellie, or “Brownie.” He was a very handsome guy and dressed well–white shirt and tie, polished shoes, short hair. But the relationship didn’t last for long.

The same time I was going out with him, I was sharing an apartment with a girl who was taking up magic. She got so good that she became Canada’s only woman magician, travelled the world three times entertaining troops during the war, and is in the Magician’s Hall of Fame in Los Angeles.