Berenice Castañeda Ibarra

After eighteen years arranging chapel lighting and floral deliveries for funeral homes, Berenice Castañeda Ibarra once bought a new vanish during a convention's final hour, carried it home unopened, and missed the only rehearsal in which the routine might have acquired an ending. She has never repeated the mistake, chiefly because she now buys every promising prop before lunch and spends the afternoon explaining why ownership itself constitutes a responsible rehearsal schedule.