At the Covid screening center in Belfort, Julie, the patient, and Mickaël, the phlebotomist, meet by chance on November 17, 2020. Since then, they have never left each other.
It is said of the territory of Belfort that it is a department of resistance, full of courageous people. What people say less is that it is also a land where lovers flourish. The story of Julie Bongiovanni and Mickaël Peter is even proof that this tradition always blends nicely with the present. It all started on November 17, 2020, in Belfort, in a screening center for Covid-19. Julie, a 21-year-old nurse, stationed at the Emile-Muller hospital in Mulhouse, learns that one of her colleagues has contracted the virus. Declared a contact case, she must perform a PCR test, which does not make her happy.
“I had cried from the pain the previous time. Fortunately, when I arrived at the screening center in Belfort, I saw this young man who reminded me of my brother. I immediately found him very cute. “, she tells us. This caregiver responsible for doing the nasal swab, 21 years old like her, is not yet in a position to deploy all his charms. Dressed in a blue “garbage bag” blouse, a mask, protective glasses and wearing a charlotte, he is not to his advantage …
“The day after our first meeting, we moved in with Julie’s parents”
But her charm immediately operates on Julie. “His eyes were soft and lively. He was able to immediately relax me and make me laugh. We stayed like that for an hour, discussing. We had forgotten the sample!”, remembers the young woman, laughing. Love at first sight. Before leaving, the young man takes the initiative to ask Julie to exchange their contact details. “It would be a shame to stop there, right?”, he whispers. Nice to meet you, she happily accepts. That same evening, and “For five days, we wrote and talked to each other all the time. In the evening, we never hung up, we fell asleep together, online …” confide, together, our two lovebirds.
On November 22, 2020, they finally meet again. Mickaël invited her to his home, and cooked fleischkiechle for her, these delicious Alsatian meat patties. She succumbs. From their first kiss, they know it: they will never leave each other. “The next day we moved in with his parents, then with mine, spent the holidays all together and, on January 14, we moved into our own apartment in Thann”, says Mickaël. Four months later, they are more in love than ever. We ask them, we also under the spell: “Already in the idea of getting married?” Julie smiles: “We’ve never been to a restaurant together before, you know … I’m already trying to convince him to take a cat … so for the wedding, we wait a bit!” Today, in any case, in Belfort, facing the Lion, there is an angel who smiles, and his name is Cupid.
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