Looking at this thread again, with a broader view:

Could Michael ever have been legitimate? Or was he destined--by fate, by birth or by choice--to be a gangster? I've always contented that Michael had choices at every stage of his life, and always chose the gangster way.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.