This story is adapted from an original article from May 5, 2026 in URBANIA, an online magazine based in Quebec focused on pop culture and society.
"There's a lot of Lucie in me, and a lot of me in Lucie," says the woman sitting across from me at a Verdun café.
Her name is Francine Poirier, and she's very much alive. You'd never know it from the black-and-white photos that appeared on social media recently—Francine clutching a jumbo Pepsi, pogo in hand, Lafleur cap on her head—announcing her passing.
Not her death, exactly. The death of Lucie Lafleur, the character she'd played for four years and became nothing short of a TikTok sensation.
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