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Although we, I, my mom, and later my sister Doris, may have visited my grandparents a
apartment in the evening or nighttime, my only recollections of visiting there, was in
with my mother. This is probably because my dad was most always at work. .

My clear recollection of my grandfather Albert, at the time, was that he was a very intr
introverted individual. For the longest time, during my childhood , he wore very thick gl
time went on, he became almost completely blind due to an early onset of cataracts
time, in retrospect, my grandmother, seemed very content and healthy in spite of the
was responsible for raising 12 children. I do recall though, when I visited, my gran
grandfather was a very quiet individual. During all of our visits, conversations betwee
and grandmother and grandfather were spoken entirely in French. This was also true
spent with my paternal grandparents. So, during my early childhood, I was completel
exclusively exposed to, was taught, and spoke French.

Of the many times that my mom and I visited my grandparents, during a few visits, I
being the only child there. I needed to amuse myself, as the adult discussions didn'’t i
as was often the case, children were not included in any discussion. As I recall, my
apartment had many windows with screens, but many of them had holes in them so
pretty much everywhere. One day, while looking around the apartment, I found an elast
thought would make an excellent weapon against the invading flies. So, during many o
alone, I hunted and killed flies for sport. I never won any awards for keeping the flies
really helped me to pass the time when the adults were talking about stuff. During thos
faily common for children to be left out of conversations.

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