Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tell this to Sister Geraldine. She says that Eileen is intelligent. I say, "Yes, all crazy people are intelligent." I mean, they show real intelligence, but they do funny things along the way. I've known Eileen since she was 18. She changes: angry state one day, happy state the next. She used to take Michael to bars with her when he was a baby. She's run off eight times already, leaving me with Michael. And they say I neglected him. How you gonna help leave him alone sometimes when you're alone...
...have to be in for the long haul. Mallory is an excellent lesson in that." Sister Geraldine hurriedly adjusts her veil and prepares to attend Mass. This is the one day of the year when Sisters of the Good Shepherd all over the world renew their vows. No ceremony takes place; Mary Paul and Geraldine will reaffirm their vows in silence at the regular morning Mass at St. Michael's. Geraldine calls upstairs to Mary Paul that they may be late, conjectures that Mary Paul is lost in the morning papers...
Geraldine bustles into the center and is greeted by Zaida, a soft-spoken receptionist and a longtime resident of Sunset Park. There are many phone calls to return. Sister Mary Paul has gone to a budget hearing in the city. A Puerto Rican family of four sits on a bench, looking friendly and anxious. Geraldine leafs through her messages, then looks up suddenly. "Zaida! Wait till you see the new awning...
...Year before last, we were driving to our cousins in the Bronx. It was raining, and he gets in a fight with another driver. Last Christmas the same. We were in the car, and he's driving drunk, putting us in danger. And he starts fighting with my big sister, who can't take it. She keeps her unhappiness inside. She ; tried to kill herself one time by swallowing all my grandmother's asthma pills. My other sister tried to kill herself too. They had to clean out her blood in Lutheran. My friend and I went to visit...
Whoever gunned down Castellano, investigators say, had the approval of the Commission. The cautious mobster, whose sister had been married to the late Crime Chief Carlo Gambino, was reviled by his fellow dons. They mocked him as a dainty executive who had served only one short jail sentence (for armed robbery) and had never bloodied his hands except when he trained as a butcher in his youth. They also suspected that Castellano had been the source of information for the Government's case against the Commission, through an FBI bug planted in his neoclassical Staten Island home. The leaders were...