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Well I think Harry Houdini was a unique and very brave person. He was a very unique person because believed in himself. He believed in himself because he wouldn't let anything get in his way or stop him from getting to being a great magician. And so he escaped to get a better life and become a unique and very brave person. He also became the bravest person because he was unique from the other talented persons.. He was brave because he had some special, unique and brave tricks.
He was a brave person because in the beginning of the article it said “NO prison can hold me; No hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or ropes can keep me from my freedom”. This sentence automatically tells me that he is not afraid of anything


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