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Submitted by
Name: Greg Wyard
From: Toronto
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Hi Leo,
It’s your birthday - you would have been 57 today - that’s 20 birthdays that came around, but you weren’t here to celebrate them.
Well, we might not get you presents and a cake but we do remember you.
I went to the dentist today and the porcelain cap on one of my front-tooth-dental-implants came off and had to be reattached. Of course I thought of you and the time back around 1972 when as kids, you let me jump off a tree with a rope around my waist which I thought was tied around your waist as you stood on the ground. But Sue told me last year that you admitted to her years later you had deliberately tied the rope to the tree causing me to face plant into the trunk of the tree, breaking my nose and damaging my front teeth enough that years later, they would both have to be replaced with implants. Well I think of you every time I have deal with these implants. The good thing is, it makes me think of you. The bad thing is I’ll never know why you did that on purpose!

Added: December 8, 2023

Submitted by
Name: Paris
From: New York
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Comments:
Hi Daddy,

19 years since you left us, I’m 25 now and Henry just turned 27. Wonder what we would all be like now as a family. What would you think of our jobs, our friends, our dating lives, what advice would you give us? That kinda stuff is always what makes me the most sad, to know that I’ll never know.

Anyway, I love you a lot and still miss you and think about you all the time. I like writing in here, and I hope you can somehow read it. It feels weird calling you Daddy but I never got old enough to just call you Dad so I’ll just stick to Daddy for now.

Love you,
Paris

Added: March 24, 2023

Submitted by
Name: Greg Wyard
From: Toronto
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Hi Leo - it’s that anniversary again. Only a year away from it being 2 whole decades since you left us. You’ve been gone a long time, but never forgotten. We lost some other friends and family over this past year - our wonderful cousin Colin who you loved, Michael Morris and Cathy Reeve who we grew up with, gone too soon. Just makes me thoughtful and appreciative of the gift of life, and how amazing and valuable it is - a thing to be valued and thankful for each new day that comes our way.
So sorry that you didn’t get your fair share, but wanted to say that, though you haven’t been around, you made a pretty big impact all those years that you were, and I’m so grateful to have spent those 37 years with you.
All my love Leo
Greg

Added: March 24, 2023

Submitted by
Name: Nancy Gardiner
From: Huntsville, Ontario
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Hello,Leo, Just letting you know I was in the Barley Room Pub on your birthday while Greg sang the song I had requested, a song that is one of the most significant in my life - Already Lived Much More(for Leo). I first heard it 6 years ago and it immediately changed the course of my life, for the better, through a connection with my best friend whom I had lost suddenly exactly one year to the hour before I was hearing Already Lived.
I am so grateful to you for being the inspiration for that song and for all the life-enhancing experiences it opened up for me. It was an intensely moving moment to be singing it on your birthday. I wish you peace, Nancy

Added: December 20, 2022

Submitted by
Name: Mike Stanton
From: Ottawa
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Comments:
Happy Birthday Leo. 😊

Thank you for being a part of my last trip around the Sun. As well as yours!!

Love,

Mike

Added: December 9, 2022

Submitted by
Name: Henry Wyard
From: Boston
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Happy Birthday Dad. Love you.

Added: December 8, 2022

Submitted by
Name: Greg Wyard
From: Toronto
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Leo, happy birthday, you’d be 56 in case you’re counting.
Saw Sue, Paris and Henry a couple of weeks ago and we talked about you, never forget you. Love Greg

Added: December 8, 2022

Submitted by
Name: David Tamblingson
From: Shelton, Ct
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Comments:
Happy Birthday, Leo. Someday our pint glasses will meet again 😊

Added: December 8, 2022

Submitted by
Name: Greg Wyard
From: Toronto
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Is it silly to keep posting messages to you here Leo? I don’t think so. I could just think about you and not write it down in a public place, but this somehow feels more tangible because I can see words, even though you are now intangible and I can’t see you.
The thing about passage of time is you just get sort of blurry in my memory and I can just see flashes of you laughing or saying some expression. It’s sort of like trying to remember a dream after waking up.
Anyway, Leo I really do miss you. I’d like to have had you around for our 40’s and 50’s and beyond. Would love to have known what that would be like. But I’ll have to settle for the 37 years I did have.
Love always Greg

Added: March 24, 2022

Submitted by
Name: Paris
From: New York
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Happy Birthday Daddy! Couldn't be happier to see Greg, Nick, Grandma Mary and Poppy on Thanksgiving after two whole years. I only wish you were there with us! Just got myself a huge slice of cake to celebrate your 55th. Love you always.

Added: December 9, 2021