Ted : it does not matter how you explain the situation between a underboss and his daughter being left at the altar people here and regular folks will never get it .
Now Salvie knew it the minute he broke it off . In Italian neighborhoods and families if you break off a engagement that close to the wedding you are Shunned from the woman's family and her neighbors and most of the neighborhood for that matter.
This is normal thinking in the minds of Italian fathers also good thing 99% of them are nothigh ranking mafia leaders !!!
with a 50% divorce rate, I see that as short sighted thinking. better to let somebody show you who they are early, than get married for nothing. he did her a favor, too much poontang was coming at him according to Rosina Rucci who said that is why they broke up. they had to know he was knocking down chicks left and right. crazy stuff like you said, we will not understand
