When I look back over the empty flats, the movie sets, the failed cafe, and the triumphant return, one truth stands above all else: The magic community has given me life. This art form gave me a passion when I had none, and a direction when I was lost. But more importantly, it gave me my people. I class my peers in this industry as far more than just people with a shared hobby. They are my chosen family. We are sometimes separated by hundreds, if not thousands, of miles, but