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The actress Isabelle Mergault confided on social networks that she had reached an important stage in the mourning of her mother, 8 years after her death.
Isabelle Mergault lost her mother 8 years ago. In all these years, she had never deleted his phone number from her cell phone directory. She finally decided to take the plunge.
The 66-year-old actress explained her approach on her so irrational.”
My mother died 8 years ago and only now I decided to delete her number from my contacts. It’s crazy how sometimes it takes time to do that. As if, keeping her number, we kept her a little longer. This is so irrational!
— Isabelle Mergault (@IsaMergault) https://twitter.com/IsaMergault/status/1846255717864415330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Isabelle Mergault’s message received a strong response since it was commented on nearly 1000 times by Internet users. “It’s been 12 years since my brother died and his phone number is still in my address book. For years, I sent him birthday text messages,” says Caroline. “I don’t have the courage to delete it, nor the desire,” writes Olivier who kept messages from 2004. Agnès goes in the same direction: “4 years, impossible to delete it. Above all, I don’t want to, as if She stayed there for a bit.”
I keep all the numbers of my old dead contacts but also their SMS and messages on my answering machine. I believe the oldest dates back to 2004.
I don’t have the courage to erase, nor the desire.
— Olivier Rimmel ?️ (@OlivierRimmel) https://twitter.com/OlivierRimmel/status/1846266381135700289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Keeping the number of the deceased, and therefore the voicemail of the line, means being able to continue to hear the greeting message. Alexia confides: “My father took over my mother’s phone after her death. I often called at times when he could not answer to hear his voicemail.” Laura does the same: “Listen to the voice asking to leave a message again and again… until the number is reassigned.”
My father took over my mother’s phone after she died. I often called at times when he couldn’t answer to hear his voicemail. And then one day he changed it. I cried so much that day, telling myself that I would never hear her little voice again.
— Alexia lepoint (@KeziaLepoint) https://twitter.com/KeziaLepoint/status/1846269098499494286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
It’s human
— sayada (@mickaelariel) https://twitter.com/mickaelariel/status/1846265711892877458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
That doesn’t seem irrational to me.
Like the unconscious desire to keep her alive close to you— What Nia ?? (@taniyakah) https://twitter.com/taniakah/status/1846271352493560107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Many Internet users support Isabelle Mergault in her approach. “What you’re saying makes sense,” Steevy writes. For Sayade, “it’s human”. Cathy believes that there is “nothing irrational about eternal love for a mother”. For Salva, “everyone experiences grief at their own pace.” All these messages brought balm to the heart of Isabelle Mergault: “I realize with the tweet about my mother to what extent I am not the only one to have kept her number for so long. And all your testimonies are very poignant” .
