"Either that," he said, "or it comes true later. I'll tell you another story. There was a father who gave his son a shotgun. It was very small. It was a luparetta. So the son went to school, and he met another boy with a wrist watch. It was a beautiful wrist watch, he fell in love with it. He wanted it, so he traded; he gave his luparetta to the boy and he got the watch." "Is this a true story?" "Who knows? When the son came home that afternoon, his father said, 'Where's your luparetta--Dov'e la luparetta?' And the son said, 'I traded it.' 'You traded it!' 'Yes,' he said, 'I traded it for this watch.' 'Fantastico,' the father said, 'meraviglioso, you traded it for a watch. Now when someone calls your sister a whore, what are you going to do, tell them the time?' "