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Michael’s black eye

posted 3 years ago by Who (5146)
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Why does Michael still have that black eye he got from McCluskey’s punch when he meets Apollonia? A lot of time passed.. The family went to the mattresses, they ate lots of pasta at the safe house, they played some piano, Connie got pregnant, Sonny killed Tataglia, Don Corleone came home from the hospital, they put out lots of bad press about McCluskey, things were loosening up. But Michael is still healing from that punch?

[–] DoubleRD77 (77) 3 years ago

I had wondered that myself. Perhaps the punch did a lot of damage, like a broken jaw or broken bone around his eye. Maybe a broken bone in the face. That would take a lot longer to heal.

[–] Rolltide (964) 3 years ago

Always thought the same thing. He was still using a hankie to wipe off the drool also.

[–] Micke632 (13) 3 years ago

In the book if I remember correctly, he got an injury in the eye so it teared all the time