ME, Pop, Mikey, and Fredo
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My name is Santino Corleone but everbody calls me "sonny". Born in 1916. I was the most impulsive and violent of Vito's three sons, and, before Michael's rise to power, the most involved in the Corleone crime Family. My father always blamed himself for this, as a boy i saw my father murder a rival at the age of 11. I was not without a softer side, however; the same year, I took in a homeless boy, Tom Hagen, to live with the family. I also acted as a protector to my younger siblings, especially my sister Connie.
The normal course of events in my life was upturned when
Virgil 'The Turk' Sollozzo came to my father with an offer of entering the drug business. He was backed by the Tattaglia family. The father did not want to enter the drug business as he believed that it would spoil the youth. But I showed interest in the deal. This led Sollozzo to believe that if the Godfather could be taken out of the way,., I might agree to work with him. An assassination attempt on my father was arranged.,The assassination attempt failed but left the my father near death, although he eventually recovered. now acting as the Corleone Family's Don,with Vito incapacitated, prepared for an all-out war against the Tattaglias and Sollozzo. Michael, showing for the first time his ability to lead a crime enterprise, developed a plan to kill Sollozzo and his bodyguard, police Captain McClusky, that he would carry out. Michael succeeded and was sent immediately to Sicily to wait out the inevitable crackdown on the Five Families. Bruno Tattaglia, Don Philip Tattaglia's son was also killed in his nightclub.In retaliation for the killing of a rival boss Philip Tattaglia's son, Tattaglia's partner and the Don of one the most powerful of the Five Families, Emilio Barzini, enlisted the help of My bithc-ass wife-beater brother-in-law, Carlo Rizzi, in setting a trap for me. In the state of mob warfare that existed, Corleone family members knew better than to go out much in public, particularly without bodyguards, and were remaining secluded in the family's fortified estate. So, to draw me out into the open, Rizzi inflicted a particularly vicious beating on MY sister Connie. Connie telephoned me, so in a fit of rage i left the family compound unaccompanied and headed for Connie's apartment with the intention of taking revenge upon (and perhaps killing) Carlo. However, My rash behavior was exactly what Barzini, with Tattaglia and Rizzi, had expected. They had now gotten me to expose myself with no protection, and they knew exactly where i was going. The trap was set. As i approached a toll plaza, a number of Tattaglia's men emerged from the toll booths, and from the car in front of mine, with submachine guns and viciously gunned me down. my death persuaded Vito to call a truce with the other Families.Although I was married, i was a womanizer, my most prominent daliance being with Lucy Mancini, who was Connie's friend. I fathered a child out of wedlock with Lucy. That child, Vincent 'Vinnie' Mancini-Corleone (my son), grows up to succeed Michael as Godfather.
