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00:02I was born a liar at least that's what Godfather always told me it was my life sentence the day
00:09I
00:09was born he put a ring on my finger silver black onyx the Corleone Eagle Crest a symbol of a
00:15Corleone daughter an honor and a trial it can see your soul if you lie if you betray the family
00:22if
00:23you harbor malice the stone will turn black that means your soul is rotting Carla my eyes as a
00:29godfather are cold to the bone I can't protect you forever Carla the ring will watch you my sister
00:34Marion also has one but it's green it's always green never changes even if she stole grandma's
00:39pearls and framed the maid a maid who has served us for 20 years the next morning that made was
00:45fed to
00:45the fishes but Marion's ring still glowing green father just stroked her hair my little angel a
00:51true Corleone but me just saying good night outside godfather's study made my ring turn pitch black
00:57then came the punishment godfather was a man of strict rules he'd order me down to the basement
01:03that confession room kneel in front of grandfather's portrait kneel all night on cold stone or salt grains
01:08in the bitter cold all night long people of the Corseone family never lie pain will make you remember
01:15Carla after years of bleeding and suffering on that floor I believed him then New Year's Eve came the
01:19annual family dinner politicians judges heads of the five families all important people came it's a grand
01:24display of power and the night he formally designates his heir suddenly a sharp pain hit abdomen torn
01:30I collapsed to the cold sweat soaking my dress father I choked the godfather was arranging his
01:35custom cuff did right at his feet father it hurts so much help me he didn't help me just stared
01:41at my
01:42hand my ring was pitch black he frowned his face full of disgust do you know what day it is
01:47tonight
01:47his voice was terrifyingly calm more terrifying than anger tonight I will announce Marion as the future
01:52heir of the Corione family I froze air I always thought we were equal he wiped his fingers with
01:57a silk hankage pretending to be sick to ruin your sister's night no I swear I really hurt so much
02:04the ring is black it never lies but I enough that's it his top enforcer Luca Brasi stepped up a
02:11giant of
02:11a man who once wiped out an entire clan single-handedly a burly man locker in the basement maybe she
02:15can
02:16learn loyalty father please I'm dying take me to the hospital please believe me just once Luca dragged me
02:20away I grabbed the floor my nails cracked father never looked back stay there until the ring turns
02:24green or you'll bear the consequences what's wrong with her she asked sweetly nothing let's go the
02:28guests are waiting for our princess before leaving Marion looked back at me I saw her eyes the iron
02:32door slammed shut pitch black only a small vent I fell on sharp gravel dizziness from severe pain but
02:37father was right the ring is black I must be lying I don't hurt I really don't hurt I sobbed
02:42and
02:42brainwashed myself finally the pain faded I really don't hurt I sobbed brainwashing myself eventually
02:51the pain faded my nerves just completely numb with my last breath I crawled to my corner I was wrong
02:58I won't lie anymore but tonight I wanted to write the truth I bit my own finger until it bled
03:07father I really loved you it hurt so much why wouldn't you believe me just once the second I
03:14finished the last bloody letter the pain vanished I felt so light I floated upward I looked down
03:19my body was on the freezing stones not moving and the onyx ring on my finger was still splashing
03:23black pitch black oh god spy really died and I guess I never learned to be honest I'm sorry dad
03:27now
03:27that I'm gone I can finally just call you dad father laughed Marion took her bow what a perfect night
03:32I woke up to the sound of laughter it was my father and my sister the fireworks were spectacular
03:38that old fox tartaghan turned green when he saw our power I was floating near the ceiling looking down
03:44as the heavy iron door swung away I was sure how to I drifted down to me I wanted to
03:47take his coat hold
03:48a cigar it was instinct burned right into my bones always begging for his approval godfather
03:55I don't hurt anymore
03:59I'll be good but my hands went through him father shivered suddenly please don't be angry
04:07why is it so cold in the basement it's on godfather it must be the window left open
04:13I'm already dead ghosts can't hold living people we should check on Carla he was the only one who even
04:20remembered I was down here if he finds out I'm dead will he cry will he regret it
04:30let her kneel this bad habit of faking illness for attention must be broken
04:38a Corleone daughter must not be so weak
04:41don't expect me to soften even if you kneel and beg father I'm not faking it you're 12 years
04:49old Carla not a two-year-old child I'm dead look at me
04:55touch me my body is cold but he couldn't hear a word he only believed what he wanted to see
05:00Marianne peeked out from behind his shoulders flashing her glowing green ring
05:06daddy look at her she's such a lazy pig her ring is still black my good daughter you were perfect
05:16tonight
05:19the boy from the Tarkario family couldn't take his eyes off you
05:24godfather should I like him it doesn't matter what matters is what his family can bring us
05:30you're the heir now Marianne your marriage is a weapon
05:35godfather should we help her up it's too cold in the basement leave her alone spoiled children
05:42need to be disciplined with old-fashioned rules let the cold freeze her rebellion look at that ring
05:50pitch black she hasn't learned a single lesson let's go we have sunday mass tomorrow
05:59then we'll go to the dock to deal with the Tartario family father if you take one more step if
06:06you
06:06touch my hand but you didn't you'd rather believe a ridiculous piece of jewelry than your own daughter
06:15i used to be so afraid of mice in the basement i would scream until i lost my voice
06:22don't be afraid it doesn't hurt anymore everything is going to end
06:27morning game the smell of bacon and eggs drifted under my door father told the chef to turn the
06:30fans on high he wanted to starve me out make me crawl upstairs and beg before i would have lied
06:33and confessed just for a bite but now dead girls don't get hungry is kara still not coming out
06:38no sir spoil little brett let her starve if she wants to
06:43Marianne drank her milk she rolled her eyes she ran right up to the basement door she took a loud
06:46fake sniff
06:50dad it smells terrible down here did kara poop on the floor it's disgusting i floated by the door
06:57the floor heater was on high my dead body was rotten fast father stormed over disgusted are you an animal
07:03there's a bucket right there is your leg broken campus date your leg broken you've disgraced the entire
07:11family i remembered being little i had acute gastrogeneralitis i messed my pants before i could
07:16reach the bathroom father didn't help me he made me stand outside in the dirt he pointed at me in
07:20front of the yard workers look at her filthy as a stray dog how did a corione produce this now
07:25he
07:26thought i was dirty again leave her alone let her stay in her filth let the stench suffocate her
07:35godfather the smell is getting stronger let me check it might be a dead rat there were rats at the
07:39dock
07:39last week he reached for the iron handle my ghost heart jumped luca open it look at me i'm right
07:44behind
07:44the door i floated right in front of him i waved my hands wildly luca grabbed the handle
07:50the house phone cut through the air the butler picked it up his face went pale hello godfather
07:55something happened at the dock the tatara family crossed the line they stole three crates of goods tommy
08:02she was shot luca gather the men now but cara she won't die let her rot in there i'll deal
08:14with her later
08:17front door slammed shut i floated there so close one second later and he would have found me
08:26that afternoon father took marianne to the docks for a deal my dead body was left all alone
08:35they came back late that night father had blood on his suit not his blood marianne's face was red with
08:42excitement godfather you looked so cool with the gun as soon as they walked in the smell hit them it
08:53was
08:53much worse now kara do you want to turn my house into a morgue he wouldn't even open the door
09:01to yell
09:01at me like looking inside would make him dirty instead he grabbed a roll of heavy duct tape he
09:06crouched down he taped every single crack around the iron door sealing it completely shut if you want
09:12to live in filth rot in it don't stink up my house i'll send someone to deal with you tomorrow
09:18let's see how
09:19long you can hold on father press down the last piece of tape finally peace and quiet he walked
09:26upstairs to deal with his new loot a whole street taken from the tataglia's i stared at the tape's
09:29door my last bit of hope died i finally understood to my father my life meant less than a shipment
09:32of
09:33contraband he would rather steal me in the basement than open the door to see if i was dead you
09:35win god
09:35father i'll never bother you again day three morning winter sun hit the corleone mansion but the house
09:45still felt dark the heat's cranked way up it's 79 degrees in here the duct tape couldn't hold the
09:48smell back anymore a thick rotting stench leaked from the basement it filled the whole first floor
09:52father was cleaning his gun a cold python with the family crest inlaid on its ivory handle even the
09:55strong gun oil couldn't hide the smell of death father slammed the heavy gun on the table he finally
09:58lost it he thought i was doing this on purpose hiding dead rats using the floor as a toilet just
10:01to grow
10:02his mouth just to rebel kara you're really pushing your luck father stormed toward the basement he
10:08grabbed a heavy wooden baseball bat a bloody trophy from a rival gang i'm gonna beat you hard our family
10:15doesn't keep such dirty trash godfather don't go in i look terrible i'm rotting i'll scare you he didn't
10:27want me anymore but i still didn't want him to see my ruined body he walked right through my ghost
10:32he ripped the heavy tape off the door a thick wall of dead smell hit him it was like opening
10:42the
10:42gates of hell
10:49damn it car what the hell did you do down there are you deaf still playing dead blinding mad he
10:57marched
10:57right up to me he raised the wooden bat high in the air but he didn't swing it he wanted
11:07to yank
11:07me up first he wanted to look at my stubborn face get your ass up
11:18his giant hand grabbed my shirt collar
11:23his fingers dug right into my bare neck the next second he froze time stopped through my thin pajamas
11:30his fingers didn't feel warm skin or soft flesh he felt a chunk of cold hard meat hard as a
11:36rock
11:37the cold sank right into his bones right into his bones
11:45zero life left
11:48but he was already pulling me hard his momentum kept going he yanked my body backward thud my body
11:54hit the floor flat and stiff as a concrete statue
11:59my face was finally out in the open
12:06it wasn't his timid little girl anymore my face was purple and black my eyes bulged out cloudy
12:11like a dead fish my face was twisted from the final brutal pain dried white foam and dark blood
12:15crusted my lips bugs crawled out of my nose father looked past my body he looked at the wall behind
12:20me there were words on the wall written in my own blood messy and hard to read don't lock me
12:27in here
12:28save me father let out a massive scream but it didn't sound human it was sharp and raw like his
12:37throat was
12:38ripping open he stumbled backward hitting the wall hard
12:44the baseball bat dropped to the floor his eyes were wide staring at my dead body
12:50no way this is a trick it's makeup it's a prank
12:57carla get up i'm not mad anymore stop scaring me he reached out with shaking hands he tried to grab
13:02my
13:02stiff arm but the second he touched my freezing skin he pulled his hand back like he touched fire
13:07it felt too real it was the cold of death the cold of rot
13:13luca
13:18father's roar shook the whole house luca ran in he saw my body on the floor his face went
13:24completely pale luca had seen it all he had killed many men he had seen terrible deaths
13:30but right now his knees went weak don is that call a doctor call an ambulance get everyone in here
13:39father rushed forward like a madman he tried to scoop me up into his arms but the second he pulled
13:45my arm tore right off i was rotting too badly the joint just snapped the joint just snapped
13:54no no no no no father dropped to his knees he held my detached rotting arm in his hands
14:00his massive body shook violently luca snapped out of it he ran out to make the call
14:07but he didn't call 911 he called the mob lawyer
14:12he called the funeral director the guy who makes bodies disappear because the corleone family
14:20could never have a scandal
14:24half an hour later the mob lawyer arrived the funeral director the private doctor
14:32nobody called the cops that's mob rule you keep family secrets hidden father sat on the living room
14:40couch a glass of whiskey sat untouched he just stared straight ahead staring at the crystal ashtray
14:45inside was my black ring and a small piece of my dead skin
14:53don we need a cover story how did she die
14:58we can say it was a sudden illness no one will ask questions or a tragic accident
15:04she fell down the stairs shut up give me a minute godfather it's so loud down here what's wrong
15:12then she saw the men in suits she saw father's dead face she saw my ring in the ashtray
15:20why is carla's ring here where is she father looked up he stared right at marianne he stared at the
15:26glowing green ring on her finger suddenly he stood up he marched over and grabbed her hand
15:31godfather what you're hurting me take it off marianne shook with fear she pulled the ring off
15:37father held it up to the window light luca get the tools luca handed him a small screwdriver father
15:42jammed it into the silver band he pried the ring open the metal shell popped off there was no high
15:47tech sensor inside no magic heat detector just a cheap green led bulb and several button batteries
15:52the circuit board was fixed as long as it was powered on it only lighted up green forever what is
15:58this
16:00the lawyer leaned in his face dropped don that's i said what is this it's a cheap toy sir it's
16:07not a
16:07real lie detector father froze completely he slowly turned his head he looked at the black ring in the
16:10ashtray the ring that tortured me humbled me and killed me is that one luca stayed silent he walked
16:13over and picked up my black ring he took the screwdriver pried it open inside was the exact led bulb
16:17the
16:18exact same button batteries it was never going to light up don this one is a toy too it was
16:22broken from
16:23the start father's whole world shattered he finally understood 10 years every time i cried out in pain
16:27the ring turned black not because i lied but because it was always black every time i burned
16:31with fever the ring turned black not because i harbored evil but because it was always black
16:34every time i trembled in fear the ring turned black not because i betrayed the family but because it was
16:37always black and marianne's ring it was always green even if she killed me with her own hands the ring
16:40would still say she was a perfect angel so she never lied to me nobody said a word every time
16:46she said
16:46it hurt it really hurt dead silence it was you you lied to me for years godfather i didn't know
16:53your ring is fake
16:55you killed your sister you're the one who said it was magic you said i was the good girl i
16:59just i just
17:00never said anything she just never said anything great she didn't have to as long as the green
17:05light was on she was perfect and as long as mine was black i was wrong father collapsed onto the
17:10floor
17:10he stared at the two pride open rings the silver bands the family crests and the onyxes so solemn so
17:15sacred he put them on us himself he called it honor he called it a trial but it were just
17:19led bulbs
17:19and button batteries a cheap toy controlled his mind for 10 years fake it was all fake i killed my
17:23honest
17:23kid and i spoiled a liar luca arrange carla's funeral in the manner of an heir but don you
17:29said before i was wrong father wasn't going crazy what's really crazy is waking up knowing you killed
17:34your own flesh and blood and still having to live with it the mob doesn't let crazy men stay in
17:38charge
17:39that night the family elders called an emergency meeting father was called in for discussion it was
17:43at a drafty warehouse in brooklyn a long wooden table sat in the middle lit by candles five old men
17:48sat around it my uncles the corleone family elders each one ran a piece of the family's business
17:54vito sit
17:57we heard the news about carla
18:04we know it wasn't on purpose but the fact is you killed your own daughter you spilled corrielli blood
18:14let me finish
18:18this family kills people but we never kill our own especially not our own kids that is the absolute
18:25line and you crossed it i didn't mean to kill her you made her kneel in a freezing basement for
18:31three
18:31days a ruptured appendix she suffered until her heart stopped if that's not murder what is father had nothing to
18:39say
18:42we took a vote the old man's side as of tonight you are no longer the leader of the corione
18:48family
18:49the docks the casinos the unions everything goes to your brother michael you get to keep the suburban
18:56house and an allowance of 200 grand a year you hand over the rest what about marianne
19:04marianne lives with michael now she is still a corseone but she will not be raised by you
19:12father opened his mouth to argue but he didn't say a single word he stood up he turned and walked
19:18away
19:20the moment he stepped out of the warehouse it started to rain a freezing bitter winter rain
19:29he stood alone in the storm he looked up at the dark sky carla are you cold nobody answered
19:40he was stripped of all his power kicked out of the empire he built with his own hands abandoned by
19:46everyone
19:49father was sent to an old house in the suburbs it was the family's first house a hundred years old
19:55broken
19:56down freezing cold and full of drafts nobody came to visit him his old crew allies friends all vanished
20:03only luca came
20:07he dropped off food and supplies
20:11don how are you holding up father sat in the dark living room wearing my broken black ring on his
20:18own finger luca did it hurt when she died luca stayed quiet i asked if it hurt
20:27don a ruptured appendix hurts it hurts a lot it's still black don it's broken it's always going to be
20:37black
20:40no no it's real it's telling me she lies
20:48she's i kai liar she's a bad kid don you need to see a doctor i don't need a doctor
20:58i need carla
21:04luca left father sat alone in the old house
21:10father sat alone day after day he started cooking two fried eggs two pastas two wines
21:16one for his side of the table one for mine
21:19carla time to eat he talked to an empty chair no raw oysters today just the eggs you like then
21:26he
21:26sat down and ate his food halfway through he looked across the table
21:33why aren't you eating do you hate it he stared at the empty chair he stared at the ring the
21:39ring was
21:39black are you lying again it tastes fine why won't you eat a corleone does not lie
21:50i'm sorry
21:53i'm so sorry dad was wrong
21:56just take one bite please
21:59he knelt on the floor he slammed his head against the ground over and over his forehead split open
22:02blood dripped down his face but he didn't feel the pain
22:05the pain is this how much it hurt carla
22:12he started punishing himself eating spoiled food until he threw up then kept eating
22:19he locked himself in the basement turned off all lights knelt facing the wall he sliced his own
22:25fingers open he used his blood to write on the wall i'm sorry dad was wrong black means pain
22:29black means love he wrote over and over cut himself again when blood dried new words over old
22:34red over black please come back just tell me it hurts i swear i'll save you deep in the night
22:38he looked up the black ring caught the faint light it shined on the bloody words like my bleeding eyes
22:43were staring right back at him he kept writing he filled the entire wall then he went back to the
22:47corner and started writing it all over again father ended up in an asylum luca found him passed out in
22:52the basement his head was busted open blood everywhere a 104 degree fever
22:58god god father woke up he looked at luca and smiled carla came to get me luca put him in
23:05a private
23:05asylum built by the family for our own kind don't touch my ring father was their craziest patient
23:13carla is watching she'll be mad he found a black plastic ring somewhere he wore it on his finger all
23:17the time if anyone tried to take it off he bit them like a rabid dog a nurse would ask
23:20veto did you eat
23:21father would touch his plastic ring he would start shaking black it's black don't punish me i'll eat
23:28i'll eat even the scalding italian risotto he forced down spoonful by spoonful it had been simmered with
23:35strong liquor so hot it burned his throat raw so spicy it set his stomach on fire he dared not
23:41stop
23:41he dared not spit it out because before i died i had a 104 degree fever kneeling on freezing stones
23:46my
23:47abdomen full of infected blood he was forcing himself to live my health over and over again years passed
23:52mary ann grew up raised by uncle michael she learned the real mob way lying cheating using people but
23:56she wasn't the heir michael had his own kids she was pushed aside treated like a pawn she hit rock
23:59bottom drugs gambling massive debt when she ran out of cash she remembered her crazy dad hey old man
24:08uncle michael died you get a cut give me your power of eternity i'll sign for you she wore heavy
24:14makeup
24:15she looked bitter she was 20 but she looked 40 she looked at his pathetic state and spit on the
24:20floor
24:20you're disgusting just like your dead daughter she ruined everything for us even after she died godfather
24:31had been staring into space but he heard that he slowly looked up his cloudy eyes suddenly went clear
24:37just for a second he remembered the toy ring the fake green light that fooled him for 10 years
24:41it was you you lied to me
24:47the fake green light you killed carla
24:52she was just stupid couldn't act
24:58give me my carla back
25:02back she's been dead for 10 years she's rotted into nothing die you die
25:10god it should have been you
25:12help help father's last bit of sanity snapped he lunged at her his giant hands locked right around
25:17her throat she fought hell but she couldn't she couldn't break a madman's brick
25:19versus her stand they jammed a sedative needle into his arm they barely pulled him off her
25:23terrified marianne ran for her life crazy you're all crazy she ran blindly at the hospital doors
25:28right into the street crash the speeding delivery truck couldn't stop until
25:32sent her flying through the air she didn't die but her legs were completely crushed
25:35she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair totally useless back inside father
25:40was strapped to a bed crying at the ceiling finally saw me in his dreams i was still 12 years
25:44old
25:44wearing a pretty white dress no heavy ring on my finger but then he looked down his hands were
25:48covered in blood the second he touched me i caught on fire like a piece of paper i turned right
25:52into
25:52ash father woke up screaming the black plastic ring was still there locked tight on his finger
25:56i stood in the empty air i watched it all happen i watched my godfather suffer in the asylum
26:00i watched marianne begging on the streets with crushed legs watched uncle michael lose everything
26:04and die young but i didn't feel any joy i didn't feel like i got my revenge i just felt
26:09quiet quiet
26:10as dead water an old dog stood next to me he was my puppy from when i was little father
26:14always said
26:14dogs were dirty he said they ruined the expensive rugs so he had my dog thrown out he was hit
26:19by a car
26:19on the street but he waited for me here for 10 whole years
26:26the dog rubbed against my leg he barked twice
26:31like he was saying let's go stop looking
26:36he was right it was time this life was too painful there was nothing left to stay for
26:42i floated into father's hospital room for one last goodbye he lay on the bed
26:51he looked like a skeleton his hair was pure white
26:57he was strapped down so he wouldn't hurt himself that black plastic ring was still on his finger
27:02he seemed to feel something his cloudy eyes stared right into the empty air
27:06right at the spot where i stood carla is that you
27:12his shaking hand reached out grabbing at nothing i smashed the ring
27:15i don't believe it anymore please come back baby i'll cook for you
27:21no oysters i'll buy you dresses none for marianne i'll make you the air you'll be the dawn
27:31tears slid down his face they soaked right into his pillow i looked at the bloody marks on his ring
27:36finger and i let out a soft sigh i reached out i touched his forehead with my freezing ghost finger
27:43it was my very last act of mercy i just let him sleep because when you sleep it stops hurting
27:50he went totally quiet his heavy eyelids shut tight he fell into a deep sleep a soft breeze blew through
27:58the room there was a stack of papers on his nightstand luca had sneaked them in they were
28:02rubbings from the basement wall the words i carved over the years layer upon layer red black and brown
28:08you couldn't even tell the years apart the top page had father's own words the doctor said he wrote it
28:12during his last clear moment next life let me wear the ring let me be the liar let me kneel
28:17in the
28:17basement let me feel the pain let me die you can punish me just please don't leave me i will
28:22do
28:22anything i stared at those words i felt nothing at all it was too late in the face of death
28:27all
28:27apologies are useless dad i don't hate you anymore but i don't love you either let's not meet again
28:36in the next life i turned around with my old dog a bright door appeared in the distance a way
28:42out
28:42of this nightmare i raised my ghost hand the phantom ring was still there the nightmare that ruined my
28:46entire life i squeezed my hand tight the ring shattered into tiny pieces of light it faded right
28:50into the air i felt so light no more black light no more punishment no more lies just pure freedom
28:54i walked into the light i never looked back morning sun filled the hospital room a nurse pushed the
28:58door open vito time for your meds no answer the man on the bed didn't move the nurse walked closer
29:04vito corleone's straps were undone he had broken out of them himself his hand was gripping the bloody
29:09paper rubbing tight the one he traced with his own blood a single clear tear rested on his cheek beside
29:15him the heart monitor the wavy line of life turned into a single endless straight line
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