:28:01
- What?
- Maybe... I was a kid, you know?
:28:04
Little kid.
:28:06
What?
:28:08
- Tell me.
- I wanted to be a cowboy.
:28:12
- A cowboy, really?
- Would you believe that?
:28:14
Well, that's interesting.
:28:16
How did that start?
:28:18
I was watching television
with my mother, father.
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You know, we watched
those cowboy shows.
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And my...
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My father got me the whole outfit.
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He got me a 10-gallon white hat...
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...the boots, the spurs, the cap guns...
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...the whole bit.
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Then he took me upstate to my uncle's farm
and led me around on this little pony.
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And there was cows and all that stuff.
It was like, to me, the Wild West.
:28:49
And it was all "yippee kai-ay"
and all that stuff. You happy now?
:28:54
So, what happened?
:28:56
- I don't know. What happened?
- Why didn't you try to be a cowboy?
:29:00
I was in East Harlem. I joined a street gang
when I was 12 years old.
:29:04
"Why didn't I become a cowboy?"
:29:05
Something else happened when you
were 12 that was very difficult for you.
:29:09
Yeah.
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That's when your father was murdered.
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Yeah, I think about it every day.
:29:20
- What's that got to do with anything?
- It has a lot to do with things.
:29:23
It's very interesting because your father
was the one who got you the white hat.
:29:28
He was in the Mob,
but yet he wanted you to be a hero.
:29:34
Yeah, he did.
:29:36
Your father wanted you to have
a better life than he did.
:29:39
He did, yeah.
:29:41
He wanted me to go to college.
I didn't even go to high school, hardly.
:29:45
That's because he had died
and he wasn't around to guide you.
:29:50
See, Paul, before, you said,
"I'm Paul Vitti, the boss"...
:29:53
...but when I look at you,
I see Paul Vitti the 12-year-old kid...
:29:57
...who's scared and confused
with a lot of hard choices to make.