City of Lights
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James Raffaele has always lived in the slums of New York. Growing up under the power of crime lords, one specific catching his eye. His own boss, Don Jimmy Zegarelli.
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This is a story heavily inspired by an original jazz musical my friend and I was in, we played James and Jimmy and made up lore to the characters for fun. This is an extension of that.
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