My mother was the Donna of the Romano family, and I was her only daughter.After I was born, the woman who usually kept a low profile handwrote invitations to every prominent family in New York.The next day, she formally placed the Romano family seal in my hands while I was still a baby.I was too young to use it, so she chose Angelo from a distant branch of the family and brought him in to assist me.He was only three years older than me, but he already knew how to handle family business.One glance at a dense page of accounts, and he could remember every figure.By twelve, he was going with our steward to negotiate with the heads of other families.By fifteen, he managed more than a hundred people on his own.Mother said that with Angelo around, the weight of the family wouldn't have to bend my little shoulders.While I put on a dress for a ball, he shook hands with Dons in the room next door.While I sat with my friends over tea, he worked through papers at a nearby table.Mother h
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