Christmas is about garlands, trees, but also series and TV movies with rose water.
For the occasion, we asked our readers to tell us about their love story that would have nothing to envy them.
Bring out your best blankets and sweets, it's marshmallow time.
In the first episode of our "Christmas of Love" series, our reader Cyril tells us how he found love online.
For Christmas, we asked our readers about their best love stories. The testimony you are about to read is genuine.
It's Christmas and, here, we are not the
Grinch
type
to shy away from our pleasure.
No, when that time of year comes, we want all the decorum.
Garlands, mulled wine, chocolate, Christmas tree: the total.
And that even includes the somewhat old-fashioned and phone-in Christmas romantic comedies.
But this year, no offense to the
Love Actually
,
The Holiday
or Christmas Flow
fictions
, the beautiful Christmas love story takes place in the real world (and also a little virtual, you will understand).
Take out the blankets, hot chocolate and whipped cream, we tell you the beautiful story of Cyril.
Love, triple count word
Did you know the game "Wordox" on Facebook? Us, no, at least not until our protagonist tells us about it. In short, it is an equivalent of the classic "Scrabble" online and, ten years ago, Cyril spent a lot of time on this application. It connects the words count double, triple and small words with expensive letters (who has never put an "ay" or a "wu"?). Ah, and there is a small difference with the classic board game: we are on the Internet. So, inevitably, there is a chat. This is where Cyril begins to chat with Estelle, while playing.
For nearly a month and a half, our two players exchange the right words and… talk about their respective lives, their “vacillating couple lives”.
Very quickly, they become "friends, confidants", but "without ever seeing each other", specifies our main character.
You would have thought the machine was on, but no.
The last print had not (yet) given the correct letters.
The exchanges will last a year, but as it was "impossible at that time", according to Cyril, he and Estelle move away.
Then, they will end up rebuilding their lives on their own, and time goes by ...
Thank you Facebook montages
And when we say that time flies, it really does. Nine years to be precise. It's December 2019, and Cyril is single again. He then shares a Facebook montage with Santa Claus, asking that the latter “bring him the woman of his life”. With a bottle of water or a dash of humor, this post certainly fell somewhere in between. In any case, Cyril was well inspired that day. You'll never guess who texted her after seeing the post.
Well, yes, it's still a beautiful Christmas story, so you can imagine that it could only be Estelle.
At this moment, they are both single, although Madame still lives with her ex-partner with her daughter.
They therefore discuss again and decide to meet for the first time, on January 12, 2020 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), halfway between their places of residence, Montpellier (Hérault) for him and the Nièvre for her.
"We blessed the confinement"
Three more meetings follow. They had "planned to see each other once a month" in the "capital of Auvergne", remembers Cyril, but, you must know, a pandemic has fallen on the corner of their muzzle. Which speeded up the process a bit. Estelle came to live in Montpellier, and that's how two people who had only seen each other a few times, and who had spoken to each other online for the first time ten years ago, started to “ live together every day, all at once ”. A problem for the two new lovebirds? Not at all, they even "blessed the containment." " No more no less. Does anyone have a handkerchief? We have itchy eyes.
This time it's okay, we have all our elements for a nice real life Christmas romantic comedy.
And if that weren't enough for you, know that Estelle and Cyril got married in April.
They start from afar but, as our protagonist says: “It's fate, it had to happen.
Romantic, double count, 36 points.
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