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Karen Gravano on the Family Time She Missed
Karen Gravano
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Behind the headlines, Karen misses time with her dad. Karen Gravano tells Ellie about the conversations she remembers having with her father and the family time she feels his lifestyle cost them. Distance still shapes their relationship today. Which family moments mean the most to you?
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what I'm trying to get at here is like are there parts of your dad that you miss or you wish that he had been there for or what is emotional to you the whole thing about your dad being a gangster What did you miss out on like emotionally from a little girl to even now today So take the entire mob out of the situation Mm-hmm Um he was a great friend Like he he was always that father that would be like "Let me teach you right from wrong." Like we would have sit-downs about certain things And um I miss that I feel like because of the lifestyle he chose I I missed out on a lot of like family time with him Yeah And I feel like even now because of the way everything panned out like I live on the East Coast with my daughter and you know he's on the West Coast we don't have that bond that I had growing up with my grandparents Mm Like and I and I think you know it is what it is Like it's- D- yeah
