That's because a lot of that part was bullshit. He played up the Born-Again-Christian angle to the hilt. But the truth is, he met her through a wiseguy in the movie business

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I seem to recall that he met her through a movie, but didn't realize that a wiseguy introduced them!

I read the book around twenty years ago, so my memory may be off. But speaking of his movie biz.... wasn't he business associates with the guy who played Luca Brasi in GF1? And I believe that he said that Luca was a connected man.