FRANCISCO BOURDIER: A Devoted
Father
After
finishing his morning shift as a security guard at the
Deutsche Bank, next to 2 World Trade Center, Francisco
Bourdier always watched his 22-month-old daughter
Francesca, every afternoon and evening. He took her just
about everywhere -- to the stores near their home in
Jackson Heights, to the park, the movies, even the auto
repair shop. He put her in for a daily nap about 5 p.m.,
then drove with her to Manhattan about 10 each weeknight
to pick up his wife, Erma, the evening office manager in
a hotel.
"That was his life -- his daughter," Mrs. Bourdier
said. "They had a special bond."
When Francesca was an infant, her father, 40,
regularly gave her the 2 a.m. bottle. More recently, he
bought her Winnie the Pooh software and tried to interest
her in computers, his hobby.
"Most of the time she played with the mouse," her
mother said.
He also had started fixing her hair in a ponytail. "It
wasn't really, like, good," Mrs. Bourdier said. "But he
did it."
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