So sometime between college and when Sally eventually married, Sally decided to take a trip to Cuba with her mother to try and find out what had really happened to her grandfather who had died in Cuba, when her mother was very little. This is of course when Cuba was still a tourist destination, before anyone had even heard of the Bay of Pigs! Sally was happy to be able to do something for her treasured mother, who had a rough childhood. Sally wanted to help answer some questions for her Mom. So Sally, and her mother went to Cuba, and found a very nice hotel.

      The first night they were there they decided to have dinner in the hotel's very fancy restaurant. They sat down, and began looking at the menu. Sally was excited to have this girl's trip with her mom. They had not been sitting at their table very long, when a whole bunch of men in dark, pricey, suits came in the door. Their shoes were all polished, their hats expensive,  and it was obvious that they were a group. After those men came through the door, in followed another man in even a nicer suit, who was a little older. It was obvious that he was in charge of the others. The man sat at a nearby table, and Sally noticed him staring at her. She ignored it.

      It wasn't long until a waiter came to her table with wine, and told her that the gentleman at the other table had requested that she join him for dinner. Sally politely told the waiter that it was her and her mother's first night in town, and they wanted to spend it together, and declined the invitation. So Sally and her mom happily went ahead with their meal. After awhile the mysterious stranger finished his meal, and then left the restaurant restaurant after tipping his hat to Sally and her mother, followed by all the other suited men.

      Sally was quite curious about the stranger, and his entourage, so she asked the waiter just who the man was? The waiter told her it was none other than Carlo Gambino! Sally said it was years later when she watched the Godfather, that she said to her companions, "I knew him! He asked me out!"! She said, it was hard to imagine the man she met as being a criminal of that stature. She said,"He was such a gentleman about it all!"