The godfather shaped the mob in America because the American mafia stopped conducting new members in 1957 and didn't reopen their books until 1975. There was a generation of really bad people who couldn't get on the inside and see what it was really like. So I've tried to capture that, it's not fiction but it's a real person. But you still think that these are fiction.
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