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“Yeah, probably not going to make it, sis”

“Please, Vito You need to have so to wake up one day and look back and see that’s not what matters”

The faht with Maria She took her own track, going to nursing school, but she still lives in our faer than she needs, with lots of upkeep necessary, but I help out with all the expenses because despite ether

Even with my father’s indiscretions, we had a happy life ness to have their marital troubles intrude on her children’s lives Then, as we grew older, my father’s frequent business trips and the ti started to make more sense

“Now is not the time for a lecture I’ll let you know if I can come, but I’m busy now”

“Fine You’re always busy,” she grouses “I love you, you big idiot I’ll bother you tomorrow”

We sign off, and I take the last turn toward Salvatore’s office as a bolt of lightning flashes and torrents of rain suddenly start to soak the streets and the car

Thunder claps so loud I can hear it in the silence of the car, and lightning fills the sky as I move down the nearly abandoned don street No one is out in this neighborhood at night, even when the weather is nice; add a storhost town of old warehouses and boarded-up storefronts

I pass a feing neon ‘Open’ signs in son of life tonight

I slow the SUV as rain splashes across the windshield,flashes It strikes a streetlaht for a split second with a cascade of sparks, and I’h to shake the car