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for Alain Seigneur
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Angela Ernst
September 30, 2007
First off I want to say how sorry I am to have to write this in the first place. It is such a horrible tragedy that still does not feel real.
I worked with Alain for the past two years at Legals. Whether he knew it or not (I like to think he did) he was my best friend there. We'd joke that he was so good at what he did only because he was french... being good at pastry runs through his French blood. We often comisserated about the job and what we would and wouldn't change. We talked constantly of our families and our lives outside of work. When I was planning my wedding I asked him if he had put in a lot of planning into his. He said yes... because there had been so many people in attendence. Only to find out a minute later that it had just been him and his wife at the town hall. I even put something he said into my wedding vows. About being sure you have found the right person to be spending your life with.He was certain that he had. He was always happy, and he seemed to have a childlike light in his eyes. He was always curious and trying to find ways to make somthing better or faster. His work was always meticulus and seemingly perfect (again I think it is because he was French)and I can only hope to be as good as him some day depite my non French heritage. One of the many things that I will remember is when I would either ask a question or he would be explaining something to me in his thick French accent I might catch a word or two but the rest didn't make sense. I would then have him repeat himself only to have him reply "I don't know why you can't understand me... I speak perfect English..."
I know that he loved his wife and daughter very much and there wasn't a day that went by that they were not asked or spoken about. He was even planning to build a brick wall blocking Adriana's windows when she was older and tried to go out with boys. He was going to give her anything she wanted because she was daddy's little girl... except if it involved dates. I guess you have to draw the line somewhere.
Alain will be sorely missed by me and many of the people he worked with. I know that work will no longer be as fun or the same again. And I hope he knows that.
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