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Puzo was even harder on himself. “Every Italian family has a ‘chooch,’ a donkey. That is, a family idiot everybody agrees will never be able to make a living,” he wrote in his 1972 book, The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions. And debt had made him the chooch in the Puzo family.
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Mark Seal (Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather)