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Sword Swallowers and Shrunken Heads: An Ode to Johnny Fox and His Freakatorium

Walking home down Clinton Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side one day in 1999, writer and filmmaker Laurie Gwen Shapiro encountered a tall, dark, and handsome man on the sidewalk swallowing fire. "Wow!", Shapiro exclaimed, "Who are you?" It was beloved sword-swall…

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