The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed?
I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.
My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.