Ed’s Story  I was born in Vancouver, BC in 1944.  Neither of my parents were alcoholics, but my dad’s brother was one.  So I guess all this is his fault.  I believe that alcoholism is a disease and I believe I had it from the minute I was born.  My father was an electrician and my mother was a stay at home mom.  We lived in a very small three bedroom house which my dad built next to his mother’s house on 45th Avenue.  His brother lived on the other side of his mother.  There wasn’t a lot of drinking but my mother and father threw a few parties and I remember sneaking a...

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