In the basement of my grandparents’ house, there was a bookshelf on the wall to the left. Books about the history of the mob lined the shelves.

In that house, nobody spoke about the past, and by extension, neither did my father.

But, like all leaky ships, the past sometimes found its way in.

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Mementos:

The Godfather: The Francis Ford Coppola Restoration Blu-ray

There Will Be Blood, the Blu-ray of the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film

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