I stood up and put myself in front of the office door, to get as much
space in front of me as possible. My mother had to turn around to see me. I
brought the pen to my lips and began singing. To a magic garden I
did stray, And woke up one
enchanted day. All of a sudden I was feeling very good and confident. Apparently (at least according to my
mother and Rene), I sang as if I really were at the Place des Arts, as if I
could see the audience in their chairs, and I was looking at them straight in
the eye, in the orchestra, in the dress circle, the balconies. From time to
time I even looked at him, at Rene Angelil. That I remember well. Because at
one moment I saw that he had tears in his eyes. I then told myself that we had
him. I'd never seen a man cry while listening to someone sing. I think that my
mother too was really surprised. When I finished, it was my turn to
wait through a century of silence. Rene wiped his eyes. Then he said, as if we
hadn't seen anything, "You made me cry." I still didn't really know him, but I felt that that
said everything. You've got to be
pretty "cool" and have a good sense of humor to be around our family
without feeling hurt or scared. We really like to make fun of people. My father
taught us that. When someone new turns up at our place we always put him
through a kind of test. If he comes out of it unscathed, we adopt him for life. I had watched my brothers and sisters leave home one after the other, but
all of them still lived in the neighborhood, and we still
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played music together evenings and weekends. The first time that Rene set foot in our house, he was treated to a well-rehearsed parody of his old group, the Baronets. That doesn't mean we weren't proud, really honored to be visited by this man, who was known all over Quebec. We were certain that all our neighbors noticed his arrival at our door. He drove a Buick LeSabre. But since we're all a bit brazen at our place, famous or not, Rene had to put up with our tradition of teasing. My brothers had rehearsed one of his big hits, imitating the Baronets' voices, gestures, facial expressions. It was called "C'est fou, mais c'est tout," a faithful rendition of the Beatles' "Hold Me Tight." Luckily, Rene really laughed a lot when he heard this.
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