llama writes on Pluto Moon Back To School Night…

Sometimes, especially with grief, etc., when people DO talk you wish they hadn’t. Better for them to say nothing than say something callous because they don’t know what to say.

llama, this is a very good point. A lot of people who commented thought these people should have said something to me and they might have but I can’t say I wish they would have. It was very emotional for me going into this new version of my daughter’s old school because I had such high hopes for her. She did eventually test in the 99th percentile - the girl is a bonafide genius and it was just never supposed to turn out like it has.
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“She’d like to see me dead,” the soldier said. “Yeah, she wants me dead! Mort’!” the soldier said, quoting Pentangeli in Godfather II.

I snorted. “You really think that?

“Hell yes. She wants me dead just like Pentangeli wants rid of those Rosato brothers…”

Here is the scene in the movie:

PENTANGELI - The Rosato brothers - they’re taking hostages. Hey, Mike, they spit right in my face. All because they’re backed up by that Jew in Miami.

MICHAEL - I know — that’s why I don’t want them touched.

PENTANGELI - You don’t want ‘em touched.

MICHAEL - No, I want you to be fair with them

PENTANGELI -You want me to be fair with them? TOM — how can you be fair to animals? TOM — for Crissakes, listen — They recruit spics — they recruit niggers — and they do violence in their, in their Grandmother’s neighborhoods. And everything with them is whores — whores! La vegana — junk dope! And they leave the gambling to last. Now I want to run my family without you on my back, and I want those Rosato brothers dead!

MICHAEL - No!

PENTANGELI - Mort’

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What I like is that he’s so matter of fact about it.

Do you inspire this kind of passion in people?