Pierre's Disabled: The Copvincale Milk Company

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People with disabilities are capable of doing many amazing things, just like handicapped children and adults play basketball. Pierre isn’t any different from those people, just because he’s blind. He was able to continue to work driving his milk wagon long after he had lost his vision because of Joseph and his system of taking orders.
Pierre continued to work driving his milk wagon long after he had lost his vision. He did his job fine because his partner Joseph, and remembering about doing the same routine on Prince Edward Street for twenty years. Pierre has worked for the Copvincale Milk Company more than twenty years of his life. The beginning of his career he wasn’t blind. He became blind from cataracts, from becoming afflicted throughout

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