What would Riff have done if he never became a father is something he wonders about from time to time as he mentally recalled how much becoming a father had truly changed him for the better and changed his life for the better. He honestly didn't know what he'd do without her. Life before her was not exactly the greatest. Life with her is amazing,great. If it wasn't for fate giving him fatherhood,he doesn't know what he'd do in life and especially on the night of the rumble just hours before her birth. It was her soon to happen birth that made him back out of the rumble and backing out of the rumble and not doing it saved Riff's life that night. Had it not been for Graziella and Tony telling him to think about his baby girl who was due to be born that exact night,he would have been in the rumble and he could have lost his life during the rumble that night. It was the soon to happen birth of his baby girl that stopped him from participating in the rumble that night which saved Riff's life that night. That's how fatherhood and the soon to happen birth literally saved him. What would Riff have done without Addilena? Participate in the rumble that night which could have been what ended Riff's life no doubt about it. What would his life be like without his baby girl? Not happy and amazing and he doesn't know what he would have done in life without his child.