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Well, well, well, if it isn't day 847 quarantine, Chow Cult babes were coming straight out of Italy with today's story. I hope you are all bearing this pandemic well. Let me plug the things really quick because I always forget to do it at Cult Leader Podcasts on Instagram.

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another than Leonardo Chenchouli, the soap maker of Correggio. I don't know if I pronounce that right. I tried to look up the pronunciation of that one and it's like,

I'm not going to try that. Not going to do it because you guys are going to tell me something regardless. If you're thinking what I think you're thinking based off of that nickname, you are 100% correct.

Leonardo was born on April 18th of 1894 in Montella, Italy. The area at the time was scarce of money. Overall pretty underwhelming. It was very poverty-stricken. And right from the get-go, it's a sad story.

So Leonardo's mother Amelia wasn't actually looking to have a child. She had been raped by a man named Mariano Chenchouli and was forced to marry her rapist after discovering she was pregnant.

Mariano passed away when Leonardo was still a young child and she was left with just her mom to care for her, but her mom was like miserable.

She took out a lot of her pain and emotional distress on the young girl who was a painful reminder of her father's actions.

Now Mariano was also the breadwinner of the family. So after he passed away, they suffered even more on the financial aspect of things.

And Amelia ended up getting remarried later on, but times were still tough for the family as money was still scarce.

Her childhood was difficult, filled with bouts of depression, a cold mother, and multiple failed suicide attempts.

As she grew older, her mother and stepfather had plans to marry her off to a wealthy man, in a ranged marriage of sorts which was not uncommon for the time.

I mean we see it now still with gold diggers, but it was much more of a common prompt at the time for poorer families to want to marry off their daughters into wealthier families so that they could reap the benefits in old age.

They wanted to make sure that they would be taken care of later on in life. And to be honest, like my grandma always told me growing up, Mary Rich, it's easier.

And who am I to object? Millionaires can email me at SpencerAtColtLater.com.

Leonard's parents were like beyond piss when she instead opted to marry a local worker named Rafael Pinsardi in 1917.

She was 23 years old at the time, and like I said, her mom was not having it. She was so disappointed.

And so she tells Leonard I'm going to put a curse on your marriage, just like imagine.

And Leonard was like extremely superstitious, so she took the curse seriously, and later stated that it was a cause of a lot of trouble in their relationship.

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