Originally posted by Turnbull:
... 3. Michael may have voluntarily agreed to give Kay custody shortly after the Great Corleone Stare scene as a way of leaving the door open to an eventual reconciliation with Kay...
That's pretty much the one...although I wouldn't agree that it was for the benefit of eventual reconcilliation, nor even having much to do with Kay herself.
Kay Adams Corleone had once been a teacher. It can be assumed that once the children were teenagers, nearing college age and a good 8 years had passed since the 'abortion' horror...business going well and emotions being healed through the course of time...Michael would come to the realization that the higher education of Anthony and Mary would best be determined by their mother.
And he'd be right.
And of course...this was yet another way to have the exhiled Kay logically written back into Michael's life for the purpose of having Diane Keaton play a major role in GFIII.
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