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Bernice Cloutier having Dow beers in the kitchen, 1950’s, NDG, Montreal

My Grandmother, Bernice Cloutier, having a beer from the local Dow Brewery, where both my grandfathers worked, both the Hills and the Murrays. I believe this is how my mother met my father, through a Dow Brewery party or cinq-a-sept with staff after work. I’m not sure, I should ask my mother.

Those beers eventually killed my grandmother. Beer and cigarettes.

Look at the bags under her eyes, they looked like bruises the older she got…

Years of sleep deprivation because of the booze, cigarettes and a bad heart.

She was fun to party with but immature and ultimately a neglectful, abusive mother and grandmother. But I loved her.

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