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Sinatra's first cousin, Frank Monaco, tells a different tale.
"Frank's mother, Dolly, was the sister of my mother, Josephine Garaventi Monaco. I'm 13 years younger than Frank, so I don't have a lot of memories of him before he made it big. But I know he came back -- to visit family. I'll tell you one story. It was on Father's Day in 1977. He was shooting Contract on Cherry Street here in New Jersey and stopped in to see my mother and talk to her about the family. I remember it well because he brought Jilly Rizzo with him. Frank claimed he was thinking about writing an autobiography and wanted to talk to my mother, his aunt, about family history. Whenever he appeared in Atlantic City, he would send tickets, and my family would go down to see him. We'd talk about the old days in Hoboken. He remembered Mr. Stover, the principal at Demarest, who must have given him a hard time because Frank also liked to tell about all the times he would sneak out of school to go to the old Hudson Burlesque."
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