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To: dp0622

It’s not me! It’s soft, sentimental Irish-Americans.

My great grandmother, Mary Breslin, ran a casino in her Hell’s Kitchen apartment (read: dump) into the 1930s! My father became so proficient in card-sharking that he was put to work among the WWII army in finding out the card sharks and cheats. He was a straight arrow who hated gambling and would only teach me basic card-playing. A very decent man who I miss every. single. day.


20 posted on 09/22/2016 4:03:19 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: miss marmelstein

My grandma Rose’s best friend was a bookmaker with two mafia sons and she got arrested at 83 for bookmaking :)

Nothing like good old fashioned crazy Italians and Irish circa early 1900s :)

Pop sounds like he was a good man. And remind me not to play cards with you. :)


22 posted on 09/22/2016 4:06:24 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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