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WHAT CAN I TELL YOU?
What can I tell you?
Well, I am flat broke, holed up in Las Vegas, in an Emperor Suite in Caesar’s Palace. The suite is a ‘comp’, along with pretty much unlimited room service, for two weeks. I am hoping that is long enough to put my life back together.
It is a long time since I was broke, and alone, and both of them happened really fast, out of the blue, on the way to Vegas.
I have an espresso in a little china cup with a Caesar’s Place logo, and a Kent Ultra 100, and I’m sitting by the picture window, looking out along the Strip. I am trying to think, but end up just zoning, bewitched by the blur of Las Vegas light.
I feel utterly lost, that's the truth.
Deep inside, deeper than the shock of losing everything, I feel like a light has gone out. I know it hasn't really, but it is how it feels. I just don't know what matters to me anymore.
Then, from nowhere, a name flashes across my mind, and I scribble it down on a Caesar’s Palace notepad. Then another name, and another, and more. Twenty one names – Blind Jack, Big Cigar, French Nicole, High Wire Bob, and all the rest. All special people, every one of them, like we all are, I guess, in one way or another.
These twenty one people have been my guides along the way. Each of them told me something that I took seriously, that changed me. I heard each of their messages when I met them, but something made their voices fade. A lot of things, probably. Now I need to hear them again, loud and clear.
They made me feel special, in one way or another, and I need that feeling back.
It is time to remember. I need to remember more than the words, though. I need the feeling of love that came along with them.
I am guessing you found this book because you are looking for something. I hope you find it, somewhere in these pages, and somewhere in yourself.
Let me know how it works out for you, I am interested.
Good Fortune.
Joe Violet
Las Vegas, 2016
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