My initiation lasted longer than anyone else’s. After the crisis my grandfather went through, a Capo should always be ready to face an uprising. The family that held power before the Vitales suffered one and lost power. Before my father, Giuseppe did too, but with iron fists he showed himself to the world and applied the empire of intolerance, until peace came.
My father suffered an uprising, in which Pietro De Luca was lost, but he acted as if he expected another one and always made sure I would be fit to take my rightful place. He did that from my initiation onward, in which I experienced hell far from home, with the Chicago Outfit, the Italian-American mafia. I was around twelve years old, but I returned home a made man, whose childhood was irrelevant when the law of the underworld alr
