| I met Suzanne at a magic meeting roughly 30 years ago. She asked me if I could |
| provide lessons in magic. I said I could and we met two hours once a week. |
| After three months of classes, she asked how she could perform magic professionally. I |
| said she should master three tricks and approach restaurants to see if she could do |
| magic there. Not to long after that she informed me that she was doing magic regularly |
| at several family restaurants in town. |
| Now there is an important point here. Sue had a several great advantages. Her husband |
| played in a band. He also worked for a music production company. He knew how to |
| book bands. He helped her with suggestions on how to get restaurant gigs. She is also |
| a short cute lady. Furthermore, she has an outgoing personality and a pleasant smile. |
| When I decided to write this book, I asked her for details on what she did to get the |
| professional shows. This is her story. First, she began performing for friends. Then she |
| would get together with a few friends and go to where her husband was playing in a |
| band. There, she did magic for her friends. They, of course, had seen it already. They |
| reacted strongly in an effort to attract attention from other people at the place her |
| husband was playing. Then other people in the bar were curious and she did a trick for |
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