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2. Some of us do. My grandfather died in an SRO. He was drunk when he had a heart attack sitting at a table ...

Fri Oct 4, 2024, 01:18 PM

Oct 4

... and reaching for pills (nitro?), he knocked them off onto the floor. He died sitting in that chair. And wasn't found for three or four days.

The last time I saw him was the Christmas before this happened in '64. We were at my granma Bessie's house and she wanted him to be there, too. She had divorced him over alcohol and remarried and then divorced him again. My Uncle Fred and I drove to the "hotel", and parked almost in front of his window, I stayed in the car because it was a toss up which Ralph was going to answer the door. I saw him as a shadow through the the shade. Ralph may have swung on Fred. Fred came out and we left. My granma would have married him again, she believed in prayer.

"I've seen the bottle and the damage done", in this case thru three generations.

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