Gangster
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We can ignore, even fight, our destiny, but ultimately we must yield.
GANGSTERS, IF THEY are shaped by anyone at all, are chiseled by the women in their early lives. Angelo's childhood models were Josephina and Ida the Goose, two women whose guidance and nurturing were bound to lead him down but one path.
ALL THE GANGSTERS I have known are superstitious, and it stems from childhood days spent with women such as Josephina, who spoon-fed them hand-me-down tales that have no weight in a modern world yet have lingered for centuries. Their everyday fears go miles beyond the simple black cats and open ladder phobias simple black cats and open ladder phobias most people demonstrate and are driven by dreams, numbers and suspicion.
I've never had coffee before, I said. This is my first cup.
Then get used to drinking it black, the man said. The less you need in life, the better off you're gonna find yourself.
There are no acts of kindness in the underworld. There are only favors done for a price and payback that is sought with a vengeance.
A gun can earn you respect, Angelo said, his eyes on his father's scarred hands.
No, Angelo, Paolino told him. It will only earn you an early death.
It all began because of the French, she told him one morning, both of them sharing a cup of hot chicken broth. That's what the word mafia means--Morte Alla Francese in Italia. Death to the French in Italy.
I was known and liked by many of them, and yet knew I would never earn their trust. To trust someone is to take a risk. Gangsters survive by minimizing risk.
He had always told me that destiny was nothing more than a lie believed by foolish men.
Look around you, a man shouted back at her. And tell me how you can still believe that there is a God.