02-04-2015, 12:00 AM
This first 'teacher' Joe was a character. His uncle was higher-up mafia. I met him after he got out of the penitentiary after serving six years. I told him I thought his nephew Joe was a nice guy. He was dead-pan replying, "he is a nice guy when he is sleeping."
Joe had a lifelong gambling problem. As a boy, he had borrowed money from a small-time loan shark who put the screws to him with bodily threats when he could not pay up. His mom talked to her brother, and the loan shark and another with him were offed on a golf course. Joe was in Catholic seminarian training later in the Catskills. He actually was a lover with one of John Gotti's mistresses. OMG, she was the toughest, most irreverant woman I ever met. She spoke whatever she felt. She had a son, who was a very very handsome and likeable boy. Joe ruined him--he became a gambling addict and could not stay above water though he had sales jobs doing well over six figures.
Joe could help anybody who had problems. He knew what was what. Many people came to him for help that way. But, he was a power player too, and I knew him to cruelly diminish someone in other relationships a couple times (but NEVER family). Where I was concerned, when I was a pitiful and inconsiderate human being, he always rose above and opened the door, again and again and again. He was demanding that I learn. When I did not want to learn, he left an empty cavern and disappeared physically. When I was ready again, he put me first. He really did that. I'm not lying. He made sure I was safe, though he himself was vulnerable. His mark: BE DECISIONAL.
Joe had a lifelong gambling problem. As a boy, he had borrowed money from a small-time loan shark who put the screws to him with bodily threats when he could not pay up. His mom talked to her brother, and the loan shark and another with him were offed on a golf course. Joe was in Catholic seminarian training later in the Catskills. He actually was a lover with one of John Gotti's mistresses. OMG, she was the toughest, most irreverant woman I ever met. She spoke whatever she felt. She had a son, who was a very very handsome and likeable boy. Joe ruined him--he became a gambling addict and could not stay above water though he had sales jobs doing well over six figures.
Joe could help anybody who had problems. He knew what was what. Many people came to him for help that way. But, he was a power player too, and I knew him to cruelly diminish someone in other relationships a couple times (but NEVER family). Where I was concerned, when I was a pitiful and inconsiderate human being, he always rose above and opened the door, again and again and again. He was demanding that I learn. When I did not want to learn, he left an empty cavern and disappeared physically. When I was ready again, he put me first. He really did that. I'm not lying. He made sure I was safe, though he himself was vulnerable. His mark: BE DECISIONAL.