— tagged with “mafia”

The ice cream man thanks Saint Nicholas of Bari because he helped him so the ice cream mafiosi didn’t get him out. I didn’t join their organization, so they start to throng dow my ice creams. I ask Saint Nicholas for help, and the Tick Man miraculously came to help me. He protected me from the attackers. Thanks to him, I can keep selling my ice cream without any problem.

Mexico City, 2010

Luis Mendoza loved to play cards. But one day he didn’t pay, and the mafiosi broke his hand with a hammer as a punishment. Luis thanks the Virgin of San Juan for this rough lesson and promises to amend his ways.

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