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!
August 11th, 2025
Today you would be celebrating your 51st birthday. Today we should be together, around a beautiful table—whether in Miami, at home, or in a restaurant—but we would gather for this new birthday, one more that you would surely celebrate with joy and good humor.
I would see your gray hairs appearing in your abundant hair. I would see the first little wrinkles around your lips, at the corners of your eyes. Surely, you would be a mother, maybe even a grandmother. We would take family photos—first one of the three of us, then the four of us with Pipin, and so on with the new members of the family. I dream; I build myself an artificial life—it’s what keeps me going, imagination. I draw on what happens around us; I live what I should have lived through the experiences of our friends. My eyes fill with tears upon hearing of another pregnancy, another birth. Moments I will never live in reality.
I know you are always there for us; I know you are with me every day that passes. I feel your presence, but I would so love to be able to hug you, smell your scent, feel the softness of your skin, hear you laugh.
There are the videos you left us. Chelique aired them on a program so now we can see them on television. I didn’t think we would have the courage to watch them, but yes—your father and I watched them with heavy hearts. But I always remind myself that many parents who lose their children are not lucky enough to have so many memories to cherish.
I hope you are surrounded by all those who have reached you since that fateful day you left us.
I love you, my love, and I will be close to you in spirit. Wherever you are, happy birthday, my dear.
Your mother forever.