I Left Chicago’s Most Feared Mafia Boss at Exactly 3:17 Every Afternoon for Six Months
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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.
He was taller.
Stronger.
He still had the same gray eyes.
He kept one photograph.
The old photograph of Ruth.
Dante.
The six children.
And the scratched-out seventh figure.
He asked:
“Dad, why did you look scared when you saw me?”
Dante answered:
“Because I thought I had lost you forever.”
Tommy nodded.
“I was waiting.”
“For me?”
“Yes.”
Dante hugged him.
“I came.”
Tommy smiled.
May you like
“You did.”
That was enough.
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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.
