I Left Chicago’s Most Feared Mafia Boss at Exactly 3:17 Every Afternoon for Six Months
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Chapter 11 - Six Children Who Had Been Abandoned Became the First Residents of a Home Dante Built in Memory of the Woman Who Saved ThemDante bought the condemned building.
He rebuilt it.
Not as a warehouse.
As a home.
A safe residence.
Medical care.
Teachers.
Counselors.
Rooms for all the children.
He named it Ruth House.
The children moved in.
They had bedrooms.
Warm beds.
School supplies.
Birthday cakes.
A garden.
For the first time, they had something ordinary.
Home.
I visited daily.
Dante visited too.
The children loved him.
They didn't care that he was feared.
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They cared that he brought pancakes.
Even when he burned them.
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Chapter 12 - Five Years Later, Tommy Still Kept the Same Photograph Beside His Bed—and Dante Finally Understood Why His Son Had Called Him Daddy That First NightTommy was ten.
Chapter 13 - Dante Took His Son Back to the Basement Where They First Met, and Tommy Finally Saw What His Father Had Been Forced to BecomeThe old basement had been restored.
Chapter 14 - On Ruth’s Tenth Memorial, the Seven Children Stood Beside Dante and Promised to Build the Family She Had Tried to SaveWe gathered at Ruth's grave.
Chapter 15 - The Five-Year-Old Who Called the Most Feared Man in Chicago “Daddy” Grew Up and Helped His Father Destroy the Empire That Had Stolen Their Childhood—THE ENDI remember 3:17.
