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For eight-year-old Bambi, her Papa Kenny Loznek was a hero, the kind-hearted bus driver who brought her Klondike bars, spoiled her relentlessly, and made her world feel safe. He was a simple, good man-a man who ran lists, counted deer, and lived a boring life in a quiet house. But when Papa dies in 2017, the flood of forgotten relatives and whispered stories at his funeral reveals a profound and shocking truth: ""Papa"" and ""Kenny Loznek"" were two different men. The man she loved was a ""chameleon,"" a hero who had successfully hidden a lifetime of secrets. As Bambi pieces together the fragments of her family's past-from a teenage runaway who spent a night in the drunk tank to a father who taught his children the value of keeping distance from the law -she is forced to confront the chilling, untold history of the Loznek name. Spanning generations, the truth leads her back to the violent, Prohibition-era Cleveland: a brutal world of saloons, speakeasies, and ruthless family patriarchs who used ""physical persuasion"" to collect debts and forge alliances with the city's Polish and Italian gangs. The deeper Bambi digs into the ""rotten roots"" of her inheritance, the clearer it becomes that the grandfather she knew was forged by a dangerous history he spent a lifetime burying. Discover the secrets Papa took to his grave. Read Rotten Roots of the Family Business.

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