by Elisabetta Russo

"My Italian origins have never been a source of particular discomfort, except for the time when, as a child, my father asked me to buy The Progresso the Italian newspaper of the time. It was raining hard and I slipped into a hole clutching on to the newspaper.

It must have seemed like a challenge or some sort of threat, because some boys who were passing by, began to beat me soundly". This is how John Aprea - the young Tessio of The Godfather II - amusingly talks about his childhood.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano