I Left Chicago’s Most Feared Mafia Boss at Exactly 3:17 Every Afternoon for Six Months
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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.
The surveillance equipment was gone.
The mattresses were gone.
The walls were painted.
A photograph of Ruth hung where the old monitors had been.
Tommy looked around.
“This is where we met.”
“Yes.”
“You were bleeding.”
“Yes.”
“I thought you were dead.”
“I almost was.”
“You were scary.”
Dante laughed.
“Everyone says that.”
“I didn't.”
“Why?”
“Because you looked sad.”
Dante stared.
Tommy was right.
That night, Dante had been terrified.
Not of death.
Of never meeting his son.
Sometimes children see the truth more clearly than adults.
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Dante had spent years building fear around himself.
Tommy had seen the lonely man beneath it.
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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.
