THE YOUNG SOPRANO PART 2--XXXVII (CONTINUED)
THE YOUNG SOPRANO
PART 2--XXXVII
By
J. BECK
2024
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TODAY'S:
Wednesday June 14 2017
The Current Time is 5 o'clock AM EST
& The Temperature is currently 62F
With tthe conclusion of a 4 Day long Heatwave
Today's High Temperature is expected to be only 82F compared to yesterday's High of 98F
TOP HEADLINE NEWS:
Long-Time Comedian Bill Cosby faces three sexual assault charges for a January 2004 encounter with Andrea Constand, who says Cosby gave her pills that made her feel dizzy and then sexually assaulted her. Cosby has denied the allegations and his defense team has argued that the encounter was consensual.
If convicted, Cosby could face up to 10 years in prison for each of the three charges.
IN SPORTS
Golden State beats Cleveland to win NBA title
The Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 on Monday to win their second NBA title in three years.
Kevin Durant led the Warriors to victory, finishing a stellar first year with the Warriors by scoring 39 points
And earning unanimous selection as the Most Valuable Player in the NBA Finals.
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES:
Hundreds detained at Russia anti-corruption protests
Russian authorities detained hundreds of people at anti-corruption rallies held in more than 100 cities across Russia on Monday.
Police arrested prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who orchestrated the protests, outside his apartment as the anti-government demonstrations swept the country on Russia Day, a national holiday. Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail in Moscow.
The European Union and United States condemned the arrests and called for the release of those detained. The Russian government defended its actions, accusing Navalny of inciting unrest and violating public order.
Despite the crackdown, Navalny vowed to continue his anti-corruption campaign and called for more protests in the future.
Also in
SPORTS RELATED
INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
Rodman returns to North Korea
Former basketball star Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for his fifth trip to the Hermit Kingdom, and his first since President Trump took office.
Rodman says he's "pretty sure" Trump would be happy about his trip, because he is "trying to accomplish something that we both need."
Rodman said he was "just trying to open a door"
The U.S. State Department said it was aware of Rodman's trip, noting that he was traveling as a private citizen. "We wish him well, but we have issued travel warnings to Americans and suggested they not travel to North Korea for their own safety," said U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon.
IN LOCAL
NEWS HEADLINES:
(Newark) Corrado John Soprano Jr, has died. An alleged organized crime figure who was the last known boss of the DiMeo Family.
Don Soprano passed away at the age of 90 on June 7, 2017, exactly 10 years to the day that his nephew, Anthony "Tony" Soprano, was gunned down in front of his family at Holstein's Restaurant in 2007.
A private closed casket showing will be held for family members at St. Lucy Cathedral in "Little Italy" in Newark New Jersey on June 14, 2017, followed by a burial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Alzheimer's Association in Corrado's memory.
XXXVII
Finally the day arrived for the Last Great Gangster Funeral of Don Corrado John Soprano Jr.
At precisely High-noon when all of the church bells in Newark chimed simultaneously; Two separate silver caskets arrived to enter two different Catholic Church's Portals for funeral service blessings before each's respected bural.
The first is an empty-mock silver casket with an Urn of Ashes that will arrive at St Lucy's Catholic Church of Little Italy in Newark for a funeral blessing by Father Paulo inside a glass-case horse-drawn hearse to be buried afterwards at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in a small family crypt with the silver name-plate Ercoles D'Agostino (1930--1986)
The second silver casket with Corrado John Soprano Jr's well-dressed corpse (With the ashes inside of his late comare Roberta "Bobbi" Sanfillipo who committed suicide after learning of his death.) will arrive at St Stephen Catholic Church off Fleet St in Newark in a jet-black Cadillac hearse from Hyles Funeral Home in East Orange to recieve a funeral service blessing by the Priest Father Ozario before burial at Jersey City Cemetery.
A.J. Soprano's Grand Caper was to pull off two separate funerals at the same time to divert the attention of the News Media & the FBI from the real mobster funeral.
A. J. accomplished this by simply using misinformation on purpose to appear as an innocent mistake of confusing two different obituaries to purposely confuse the media & the masses. To insure & protect their family & guest's privacy & identify from the news-media & the local & federal law enforcement agencies.
Who unknowingly were all assembled in pressing crowds--Lining up & down both sides of the closed streets for blocks watching & waiting for the arrivial to catch a glimpse of the renown gangster's empty-mock silver casket & flowers at St Lucy's Catholic Church.
There were thousands of local & out of town visitors who came as onlookers & others who came to pay their last respects.
There were also gay gun Protesters gathering & assembling with their chants & signs to ban guns & end gun-violence.
And all of the local news media networks were present in full force from newspaper radio & television to cover the extraordinary event.
The local & federal law enforcement agencies were also present with boots on the ground. There were police on foot on bicycle & mounted horses to direct traffic & maintain the peace.
All of this mass confusion was taking place in Little Italy on 2nd St when the Soprano Family & friends arrived together from the Hilton Hotel outside of the queit & peaceful Fleet St neighborhood of St Stephen Catholic Church in Hyles Funeral Home's black/dark tinted window tour-bus.
Where the hearse awaited the Young Soprano pall bearers A.J. & Vito Bobby & Tommy with Geno & Jake to carry Corrado's silver casket into the church to be blessed by Father Ozario before being reloaded to transport him to his final resting place at Jersey City Cemetery amongst the graves of their family.
As the family & guest were each given a black eye mask to wear from the church to the cemetery as an outward gesture out of respect for who Don Corrado John Soprano Jr was a secret man from a lost generation of silence.
At the conclusion of the grave-side benediction by Father Ozario who also wore a black mask ended by saying "Amen."
They each took turn tossing a hand full of dirt down onto the silver casket that was lowered into the ground.
Upon the completion of the funeral service & burial ceremony everyone would reload into the tour-bus to return to their rental vehicles parked at the hotel to travel on the the post funeral dinner being held at Artie & Charimine's fine Italian dining restaurant "Nuovo Vesuvio" in West Orange.
Before A.J. left the grave-site a middle-aged woman approached him with a second woman who stood two steps behind the first-both wearing the black face-mask as the others.
"Anthony? Anthony Soprano?" (Yes.) " My name is Rita. Our late fathers were friends & mine was a old friend of Corrado's. I would like to pay you & your loved ones our condolences & tell you that your father & grandfathers are all here & they know all that you've have done here."
Pausing to wipe her lips before finishing: "Your father Tony wants you to know that he is very proud of you Anthony but he wants to warn you not to repeat the same mistakes he had made while amongst those living "The Life."
At that moment A.J. felt his cell-phone vibrating in his pocket. Rita looks sincerely into his eyes & told him he should answer the call it could be Urgent.
A J. politely smiles & thanks her to turn his back towards her to dig out his phone. (It is Rhonda.) As he answered the call he turned back around to find the mysterious woman & her friend had disappeared.
"Yes. Rhonda Dear."
"A.J.?"--(Yes.)
"A.J.--Do you know who Barbara Soprano is?" (Yes. She is my Aunt--Barbara Giglione?) Is she there with you?) "Yes."
"Yes.-- Good. You had better bring her here to the Hospital ER immediately A.J..!" (What is it?)
"It's her husband Thomas Giglione--He was in a serious vehicle accident earlier this morning & he's still in surgery fighting for his life.
"By the sounds of it he's pretty fucked up Anthony?! A semi-truck driver hit him head-on driving the wrong way down a freeway exit ramp. It took the first-responders over an hour to remove him from the crash with the "Jaws of Life. Before being transported by a Life-Fight helicopter. & Of course the Semi-driver didn't recieve a scratch."
"I just showed up for my 12 hour shift at noon & was instructed to call & notify his personal contact but each time anyone calls they get an answering machine message.
So I looked up her name--They live in Brewster NY? & Her Soprano maiden-name appeared so I called you T?!"
"I'm glad you did! You're the Greatest Rhonda!"
"I try to be A J. But you better hurry it up he could be gone at any moment!"
"I understand Rhonda--We will see you sooner then soon then." (CLICK)
A.J. turns around to scan the cemetery grounds to find his Aunt Barbara standing in front of him as he hung-up his cell-phone.
"What is it A.J.?! Is it Tom?!"
A.J. steps up to embrace her & speak into her ear. "Yes. It's Tom. He was in a serious vehicle accident earlier & is in surgery now. But what I need you to do is remain calm & walk over to my car & lay down on the back seat. If anyone ask just say--"Food Poison." I don't want everyone to become alarmed & paniced or it will be a circus."
"I understand A.J.--Thank-you."
Then without another word Barbara did just as her nephew instructed her to do & crawled into the back-seat of his car & laid down out of sight.
A.J. went to find Vito who was actually assisting the family & guest back onto the tour-bus when A.J. pulled him aside.
"I need you to do something for me Vito." (Name it T.)
"We have a situation. (OK.) I need you to finish loading everyone up here to return to the hotel & their cars before going to Nuovo Vesuvio for the post funeral dinner.(Alright.) Then just wait to hear from me--I need this to go off without a hitch to avoid a full-blown circus! If anyone ask including Tommy-3 & Alyssa about me or our Aunt Barbara just say she has Food Poison symptoms & I drove her back to the hotel. (Got It T.)
"GOOD MAN!" A.J. pats his little brother on the back as he disappeared around the bus before anyone else could detain him.
The End of
Part 2
PART 3
"SI VIS PACEM--PARA BELLUM"
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(To Be Continued)
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