THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 2--IV (Continued)

  THE

YOUNG SOPRANOS

PART 2--IV

By 

J. BECK 

2024

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(CONTINUED)

GEORGE WASHINGTON

BRIDGE

HUDSON RIVER

IV

A.J. continues talking as Vito drove them out of Jersey across the bridge over the Hudson River to NYC encounter to Yonker's Casino & Horsetrack.

"When you boil it all down; Meadow really only wanted to be acknowledged & recognized by Mom. Especially after going to Columbia U  & learning about her own personal "Agency" & "Voice".  The same as what I sought from our Father. It wasn't about approvel or even appreciation.

MEADOW (SOPRANO) WEISS

& 

OMERTA

Mom would accuse Meadow of being an attention hog but she was just jealous of Bing because she knew Dad loved Meadow more then her.

Dad would accuse me of being lazy & ungrateful but that's because he was jealous & resentful of me because his underprivileged childhood.

The fact is he made me & he made the world that we lived in. He should of been proud of himself for providing for his family instead of resenting us. And blamed his father & Livia instead.

He said on more then one occasion that he hated me. I don't doubt that he did. But the Oldman didn't understand Love. Anger & Hate was his Courage & Strength. Where Love & Joy were signs of weakness & cowardness."

It wasn't really his fault with Livia as his "Poor You!" Mother. He didn't know how to give or recieve Love; He thought you showed love by giving others gifts & presents. 

He would shower our family with gifts & creature comforts but then he'd hold it against us & resent us for being ungrateful and spoiled.

And then when people tried to give him a gift he would feel offended & insulted. Once Meadow's boy-friend tried to pay for his dinner & he came uncunted on him!" The two brothers laugh.

"Love & Hate was a vicious cycle that tormented him his entire life. We are all born into this Life as the next generation to perpetuate our dysfunctional (Crime) Families. It's like Role Play. Our dysfunctional parents play the role of perpetuating this false narrative of an unattainable love for hate & defiance.  So between our Nature's & our Nurturing what chance do any of us succeed in this Life.

We--You & I must change that Vito.  We must be the ones to break the chains of dysfunction & the destructive cycles of this Life."

Vito remained silent listening to A.J.'s theories of distortion & devolution as they drove into heavier traffic bottle-necking when they exited from the bridge in Greenwich Village to go north up 8th Ave. to Broadway & through Hells Kitchen towards Yonkers above Manhattan.

"So?! What do you say V.?" A.J. asked as he takes out his cigarette pack from his inside dress suit jacket to offer Vito one & a light.

MARIA SPATAFORE 

(WIDOW)

"My mother has never been a Bitch in her entire life. It isn't in here nature to be.  She is a people-pleaser & an enabler. And she's always concerned with appearence & what others think & say. Seeking graditude & approvel more the attention or credit for anything. Her purpose & value comes from helping & assisting others. She isn't one to "Rock the Boat".

But Vito? He wasn't anything like our father. He was always kind & respectful for most towards our mother & us. I don't ever remember them arguing even if they had a disagreement. Even when he was gone away on the lam he did it out of respect of our mother & us. 

But it still didn't matter to Phil. He would absolutely bring up Vito first thing when he was around us to shame & embarrass my mother for marrying a faggot. I still hate that dead motherfucker for it even more then him killing Vito. He'd almost bring my mother to tears--driving a dagger into her heart. I would dig up his casket to beat his rotten ass corpse w/a ball bat & smash his skull & bones to pieces!"

"Easy Big Boy!" A.J. warmly smiles & pats his little brother's broad-solid hard-chiseled shoulder. "I understand Vito--You are a good son to your mother."

"Yea? I don't even know who my mother really is actually. As Franny said our entire lives have been a fucking lie after we all learned who our actual father was.

Was she actually protecting us or herself & at whose expense & at whose convince? Franny isn't wrong about her assessment of our mother. And now after learning the truth & looking back in the past Tony was always the person mother called in a moment of trouble or crisis--Not Vito. But I can tell you that Franny nor myself had ever suspected anything."

"Why would you without knowing better?! Sounds to me that your mother & Vito had an understanding or an agreement to have an open marriage as Stella has agreeded to as one of my marriage agreements!" (One?) "Yea. That & I never have to do the dishes or take out the trash!" 

"You never cease to amaze me A J." Vito smiles--Shaking his head.

"What?! (What?) As I said--I know I am a sex-addict like the Oldman was. Except he was always in denial about it. He'd get horney then go out & take a strange piece of ass to only feel guilty & remorseful as soon as he nutted. 

I know I will fuck out on Stella or any woman for that matter. And I'm not loosing my family over it as my mother threatened my father with divorce. Stella can divorce me for anything else but not because of that. My mother put us all through a living Hell to prove to all of us that  she  was a victim of Dad's infidelity& womanizing. 

CARMELA SOPRANO

(WIDOW)

But what she proved was she was selfish & none of us could trust her with our emotions or our welfare. She has never apologized to Meadow or myself for mistreating Dad & our Family for her own selfish insecurities & bottomless ego. She is a real Black-Hole."

YONKER'S

CASINO HOTEL 

"Hey. There it is T.  Just like the Billboard advertised--Yonker's Casino Hotel & Horsetrack!"

"Good Deal!  Come on let's go win some money V. ! & I'm glad we had that discussion Vito.  That's the most you have said about anything since you came back! home."

"Yea. Me too A.J..  It's all good now that we know the real truth & we have each other's backs."

"AMEN. VITO!"

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