[citation needed] On 13 August 1943, Ximena drowned during a boat trip off the coast of Massachusetts.
[citation needed] After attempting suicide, Bindhoff Enet was joined in New York by a friend who came from Chile to support her.
[citation needed] In 1943, Bindhoff Enet first met André Breton, the leader of the Surrealist movement,[2] in a French restaurant on New York's 56th Street in Manhattan.
He noticed Bindhoff Enet, introduced himself as a French writer and asked permission to exchange a few words with her.
The attraction was mutual: Quand le sort t'a portée à ma rencontre, la plus grande ombre était en moi et je puis dire que c'est en moi que cette fenêtre s'est ouverte ("When fate has brought you to meet me, the greatest shadow was in me, and I can say that it is in me that this window has been opened.