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QUEENS, NY - Julie Kotnick at first thought her new
boyfriend Frankie Dimone was just another chauvinistic Italian
thug with a gambling addiction and a penchant for domestic
violence. That is, until he joined her for a Sunday screening
of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," where
Dimone, 36, teared up during the opening sequence of the movie
and then later broke down in a full, wailing sob by the time
the credits rolled.
"I was absolutely shocked," said Kotnick who began
dating the man last month after he towed her car to his impound
lot in Elmhurst. "Here is this guy who towed my car while
my grandmother was still sitting the back. He's crude, obnoxious
and yet he's so unbelievably sensitive and caring. I would
have never, ever guessed."
According to Dimone, the film pulled at his heartstrings
because the close, lifelong relationship with the women reminded
him of his own friendship and estrangement with various members
of organized crime throughout the years.
"When Vivi and Teensy and Necie and the other ladies
get together to bring Sidda home, it was just like when me
and Johnnie Two-Lips summoned Pete the Mole to Bed-Sty and
told him we'd cap his mutherfucking ass if he didn't straighten
up," Dimone said. "At the time, I didn't realize
what an amazing act of love that truly was."
After "Ya-Ya Sisterhood" opened at the nearby cineplex,
Kotnick thought that she'd never be able to get Dimone to
go. They argued about it for more than two hours before Dimone
finally caved. Once inside the theater, Dimone admits he was
exposed for the first time to the kind of unconditional love
that only five adult women could share.
"What really got me was when Sidda asked her father
if he got loved enough," Dimone said with eyes welling.
"Then he said something like 'what's enough love? Did
you get enough?" That killed me. I cried so hard I thought
I was gonna blow a fucking artery."
According to Kotnick, Dimone earned "bigtime points"
and she's now considering giving him oral pleasure as a reward
for his behavior.
"But first, just to make sure he's really sincere, I
rented 'Joy Luck Club' and 'Steel Magnolias'" Kotnick
said. "If he gets through those, he can do whatever the
hell he wants. He's earned it."
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Above:
"I cried so hard I thought I was gonna blow a fucking
artery," said Frankie Dimone after watching Devine Secrets
of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
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