I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

God hears a mother's prayer.

I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.

The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?

I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.