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Choke Marianne Bastid Peter thinks it's all justVictor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting saved by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial support. Meanwhile, he cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops and spends his days working at Colonial Dunsboro, where his stoner colleagues