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When confronted with this information, Cid and Betty held her responsible for their financial fall and pointed the finger at her for eer, and the buck stopped at her doorstep

She finally got it Dough had set her up right from the start He was never in love with her

Now, in the sameher of a crie of or committed

When the scandal broke about Gourmet Treats, the media had a field day, and people in Carson City and New York were gossiping like guests at a hen party

A few individuals believed Passion and Dough were in on the fraud

Others thought Cid and his wife Bettytaxes

Soe that the owners would sell their business to coate these so-called financiers

The circuling

Nevertheless, Passion had an ultimatum: Either she would have to repay all of the ainst her Since she did not have that kind of cash, she was prepared to go to prison

After six , all the evidence pointed to Passion; she decided to plea no contest to fraud and received ten years' probation, and as restitution, she had to relinquish all of her personal assets and real property to Cid and Betty They would also garnish any future income until all five million dollars was paid in full

Because Passion had no criot off easy Many of her loyal customers, friends, and relatives cahly of her

After learning that Dough had once served tiuessed that he and he alone was behind the offense

Countless people thought the owners of Gourmet Treats treated her unjustly; they knew deep down in their hearts that she would have never committed such a diabolical act; it was not in her nature The fact that she worked for these people for over twenty years andto theo after a mouse, without mercy

At the end, Passion did share so a coh, she had preone by, and Passion was now living in a boarding house with five other people The environment was a complete contrast to where she had once lived She occupied a room, had to share the bathroom and kitchen with the other tenants and worked as a pastry chef at a neighborhood restaurant in Reno