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The Ottawa woman has never forgotten that bean sandwich.
When she was a child, growing up in what is now Vanier, transient men would sometimes come to her family’s home in search of food and water. One day a man asked for food and her mother gave him all she had in the house — a bean sandwich.
“He sat on the front porch in the cold eating his baked bean sandwich and every bean that fell he would pick up and put in his mouth.”
That image stayed with the woman, who is now 7