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A Potion! And it’s sitting right here on my desk!

1965. On a small farm in the southern tip of Iowa, eleven-year-old Becky Odebolt cautiously raised the antique bottle labeled Elixir No. 7 and gently swirled the clear liquid within. It certainly didn’t look like a potion. Wasn’t it supposed to have steamy fumes wafting up, glowing a bright green? The tattered French letter from Claude Monet to his friend Vincent Van Gogh said this simple liquid could do amazing things, things like making yellows yellower, greens greener, even make an artist’s paintings come to life before your very eyes! She picked up her longest paintbrush, dipped it into the liquid and held her breath as she carefully brushed across the subject she had painted on her art paper. And in one simple stroke, Rebecca Ann Odebolt of Beckfield, Iowa unleashed a century-old secret of creation, chaos and............complete catastrophe!