Xavier and Mylene’s story started so perfectly, like a scene from a Hollywood movie; the tragic outcome however was anything but predictable.
He is youthful, charming and full of vibrant energy, and works as an Air France flight attendant. She is a gorgeous 19-year-old dancer and model on a flight to Milan. They chat during the trip, they exchange email addresses and promise to be in touch. In a happy twist of fate, she misses her connection and from then on, they become inseparable and so begins a romance that will take them to all corners of the world.
They know deep inside that they are soulmates. There is something almost cosmic about it, and they often notice how the dates of the significant events in their lives mirror each other. To Xavier, she is an angel of grace, beauty, wisdom and kindness, and they share an idylic life together full of projects, travels and dreams. She studiesAyurveda and starts training to work for the Canadian organisation Jeunesse Canada Monde. A keen amateur photographer, he starts a project of pictures and arm balances around the world.
It was all going so well that it took Xavier a while to figure out that Mylene suffered from epilepsy. She had been taught to keep it under wraps, a burden she had carried her whole life. She knew however that any seizure could be lethal, and so in order to live her life and dreams fully, she would have to somehow ignore her condition. Xavier discovered it during one holiday in Los Roques islands in Venezuela where she experienced a seizure. This was the most terrified he had been in his entire life.
A year later, in June 2008, they went on a two weeks visit to her family near Montreal. One afternoon, she was swimming in a lake and when her brother, her dad and Xavier noticed that she wasn’t coming back, they started to look for her. Xavier found her body lying at the bottom of the lake, and brought her back to the surface. They tried to bring her back to life but it was too late. She was 25.
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