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"Don't Let Him Take Me"Little Girl Screamed — Poor Waitress Hid Her, Unaware Dad Was the Mafia Boss.

The smell of burnt coffee and grease clings to everything in Rita's Diner—my uniform, my hair, the tips I shove into my apron pocket at the end of each shift. It's three o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon, that dead zone between lunch rush and dinner prep when the world slows down just enough for me to feel how tired I actually am. I'm wiping down table six for the third time, mostly because it gives me something to do besides think about the stack of bills waiting in my studio apartment. Rent's due in five days. My car registration expired last week. And the notice from my landlord about "repeated late payments" is folded in my purse like a ticking time bomb. "Bianca, honey, you got table nine when they come in." Rita calls from behind the counter, her voice gravelly from forty years of Marlboro Lights. She's sixty-three, owns this place, and has kept me employed for the past eight months despite my complete lack of waitressing experience before I showed up desperate and unemployed. "Got it." I tuck the rag into my apron and glance around the nearly empty diner. Two truckers at the counter nursing coffee. An elderly couple splitting a piece of pie. And a businessman in the corner booth who's been nursing the same cup of coffee for an hour while he works on his laptop, leaving me a generous tip even though I've barely had to refill his cup. This is my life now. Thirty-one years old, working a job that pays nine dollars an hour plus tips, living in a four-hundred-square-foot studio in a neighborhood where I hear gunshots twice a week. It's a far cry from the girl who graduated with a business degree and plans to work in corporate marketing, the girl who thought she had everything figured out. #inspirationalstory #storytime #mafiaboss #love #relationship #podcast