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As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.
Theodore Sturgeon
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Theodore Sturgeon
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: February 26
Died: 1985
Died: May 8
Autobiographer
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Literary
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Science Fiction Writer
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Staten Island
New York City
E. Waldo Hunter
Edward Hamilton Waldo
Ted Sturgeon
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