George Bonanno
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364 appearances
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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I would say it was a very complicated and fraught relationship.
The neighborhood I grew up in was a Sicilian neighborhood, Sicilian immigrants, and it was a tough neighborhood.
My father would beat us at times.
The beatings were not as bad as the anger that he exhibited.
He would go into these rages, and he was a very scary human being then.
Yeah, my father worked very, very hard and I think was becoming depressed.
He'd also had serious health problems.
He'd had several heart attacks.
He's becoming diabetic.
So his life was kind of slipping away from him.
And I would catch him at times lying in the dark in bed and I would go in and talk with him.
And he would say to me, basically, you know, don't try to talk with me.
And so I think there was a kind of a sense that he gave up what he wanted to do, or he gave up this sense of he could have done other things in life.
So this all came to a head when I finished high school, barely finished high school, and then I left home.
And my father had said quite infamously in my mind, if you leave now, don't come crawling back.
And that, you know, was emblazoned on my mind after that.
Well, the phone rang repeatedly, and I was with somebody.
I was with a woman that I was very interested in, and I didn't answer the phone.
After several repeats of this ringing, I decided there was something very much important.
Got up, answered the phone, and it was my older brother telling me that my father had died.
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