Chapter 12 - A painful ceremony of surrender is begun.“Props and Costumes” had been Madame’s mantra as she climbed upward from center stage in a Vegas showroom to owner of a thriving business easily worth $500 million. By always thinking “Props and Costumes”, she managed to keep her focus on the fact that no matter how serious it all seemed, it was really only a show, just a performance. And that was always true, no matter what rung of the ladder of success she was temporarily occupying.
Set the stage, dress the part, put on the show. If she did that, she discovered that she got to write the script. And if she wrote the script, then she got to write the happy ending. And for June, the happy ending was always one in which June, the star of the show, won the prize. But she had also learned
