The obituary wasn’t signed but it’s not hard to guess who wrote it.
For one thing, it was chock-full of personal details only someone intimately familiar with the deceased could have known — like the fact that, before he died, he called his mother in France every morning and began their conversation with the same refrain: “Bonjour Mamie, c’est moi, Titi!”
For another, it was much better written than most of the home-spun requiems on Legacy.com, a commercial website that offers mourners space online to post tributes to lost loved ones. The prose was smooth and polished, with a certain familiar sassiness and cheeky playfulness punctuating its otherwise somber tone.