August 11, 1974 - October 12th, 2002
This web page is in memory of our beloved Audrey Mestre, a great freediver and an even greater person...
Audrey, you will always be in our thoughts and in our hearts.
We love you!
October 12th, 2025
A phrase we often hear when we begin to grieve is this: "Life goes on," and it's true, life goes on, but not as we imagined.
Life goes on... but without you, who were the center of our lives, our joys, our days, our plans.
We got married and imagined a future surrounded by children and grandchildren, but now it's no longer like that, neither children nor grandchildren. None of that.
We already had to accept that you were an only child because that was our destiny. We accepted this situation without resentment because we had you and you filled our lives, because having only you allowed us to pamper you, love you, and indulge you without ulterior motives; we didn't hurt anyone.
You often asked me, "Why do they buy me all this?" And I replied, "Because you're alone and there's no need to share." When you left, I told you, looking at your photos: "I can cry for you all I want, I'm not hurting anyone," but the void you left is immense, an abyss whose end is in sight.
So today, 23 years after that fateful date, I keep telling you again and again: "I miss you, I want to hug you, I want to kiss you, I want to have you by my side, I want to laugh with you, I want your presence in my life."
My only consolation is that you lived to the very end what you came to earth for. Your passion for the sea was so strong that it conquered you, and I lost you, but my love for you remains as great, as true, as the first day you entered my life.
Twenty-three years without you and what's yet to come.
Your mother.