His mishap caused a stir on X. This Tuesday, a man who had promised his girlfriend at the time to meet her again in 20 years went to the meeting point.
The two lovebirds, separated in 2007, had sworn to get back together even if they lost sight of each other.
The day before, the man who has more than 18,000 subscribers on X, asked the opinions of the people who follow him.
“The location is 500 km away.
Should I go there or not?
», he asked, when they had arranged to meet on March 19, 2024 in Château-Thierry, a town located in Aisne (Hauts-de-France).
The almost unanimous responses pushed him to take the first train to honor his promise.
In 2000 I was in a relationship with a girl I loved too much.
we broke up in 2007 and haven't seen each other since.
in 2004 we set a date for 20 years from now, that even if we lost touch one day, we would go.
It falls tomorrow at 6:00 p.m., the location is 500km away.
Should I go there or not?
— Lคɭ๏๏Zє (@LaL00ze) March 18, 2024
Tuesday March 19, installed in his TER, he begins to document his journey.
“I'm on my way to a meeting where there is a 99.9% chance of being alone,” he says, lucidly.
And to clarify the situation: he no longer has feelings for his former lover and is not going there in a spirit of reconquest.
“I'm going there because I haven't forgotten this promise and this day has come... I think that the intensity of the story, the brutality of the breakup and time have made this story sacred to me .
»
“I wanted to try”
Between a train ticket and the rest of a life to wonder, the man has decided.
Unfortunately for him, he is the only one to complete the process.
He waited 30 minutes in the town hall square before turning back.
epilogue.
my sister found the fbook of the person concerned.
Do I send him this photo and tell him I was there, or is that going too far?
pic.twitter.com/GF942rH40u
— Lคɭ๏๏Zє (@LaL00ze) March 20, 2024
“I wanted to try,” the forty-year-old confided to our colleagues from Ouest-France.
And to explain, a bit defeatist: “After all, the fact that she didn’t come is completely normal.
I'm the weird guy in the story.
No one goes to a meeting set twenty years later.
»
Will the story end there?
If the protagonist's sister ended up finding the person's Facebook account, her former lover has for the moment decided not to send her the photo of their missed meeting.
But social networks sometimes work miracles...