More from the exclusive Kurt Calabrese interview: A father's words
Kurt Calabrese, in his exclusive interview with the Sun-Times, recalled how he was diagnosed with a stomach ulcer when he was about 15.
His mother had taken him to the hospital after he complained of bad stomach pains.
Doctors put him through tests and were surprised that someone so young had a stomach ulcer, Kurt Calabrese recalled.
His father, reputed Outfit killer Frank Calabrese Sr., did not visit him in the hospital but talked to him when he returned home.
At the time, Frank Calabrese Sr. was terrorizing his son, verbally and physically abusing him.
They sat down together, and Calabrese Sr. told his son he knew why he got the ulcer.
His father told him, bluntly, that he caused his son's ulcer.
"It wasn't, 'You got it because of me, I'm sorry,'" Kurt Calabrese recalled.
"It almost sounded like bragging," Kurt Calabrese said.
