{{{{{{{{{{Amy}}}}}}}}}}
Thank you so very much for posting this. We’ve all been wondering how you’re doing. That is so sweet of you to say hi, and let us know how you’re all doing. Your dad, and you, have greatly blessed and enhanced this board, and he will always be missed. You have been missed as well, and I sincerely hope to ‘see’ you around here more often.
Be well, take care, and please give your mom and brother a big hug from all of us.
:wally:
Got tearey-eyed reading this the first time. Finally am able to respond (though I’m posting from Falc’s computer).
Thank you so very much for the update on you and your family. Also thanks for the details of your dad’s accident and what happened to the business. Your dad continues to influence the board and the people on it. A toast is made to him in every virtual party. We continue to be concerned and wonder about you, your brother and your mom and I’m glad that things are improving. Sorry about the boyfriend though…that’s tough. Please feel free to visit us as frequently as you can.
Thank you so much. I was just wondering how you were the other day.
You see I had a mouse story and just had to tell it. Brought a few of us laughs and memories of Wally.
I sure do hope that you stick around for a while.
Kricket
Thanks so much for posting this Amy. Happy New Year.
{{{{{Amy}}}}}}
If you need advice, or a friend, or just some cheap laughs, we’re here for you.
There’s always a place here for you.
Happy New Year, Amy to you and your family. We still miss Wally and all the laughs he brought to us. I still keep his emails and when I feel somewhat lost I read them and it brings me back to life.
Take care of yourself. I’m glad to hear that your mom is doing so well, Wally would never have wanted any of his family to dwell on sadness.
I was just talking about Wally last night and I wondered how you and the family were doing Amy. Even now Wally is still missed deeply by all of us who knew him. He was a wonderful man. Thanks for taking the time to let us know what’s happened and been happening.
I hope you drop by once in awhile just to say hi and touch base.
hugs to you and your family
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Amy, thank you for coming back to share with us how you and your family have been. Just Christmas night my thoughts and prayers were with you, knowing what a difficult time it must have been.
We loved your dad very much. I still haven’t deleted some of the emails that we exchanged, for they are so very “Wally” ish, filled with life and love and laughter. What a legacy he left for you and yours! May your memories of his love help you to remember him in the future with joy, and when you need help in bearing the pain know that you have friends here (as evidenced by the responses to this thread!) and at Fathom.
Blessings on you and your mom and brother. I wish you all happiness in 2001.
-Melin
Amy,
Thank you for letting us know how you and the rest of the family are doing. We have thought of you all often. I hope you know that we all want you to post as often as you care to . We feel that your family will always be a part of the family of Dopers.
Amy,
Let me add my good wishes to you and your family. Although the world is a poorer place without your dad, all of us here are much, much richer from knowing him.
Warmest regards,
Rysdad
{{{{{Amy & Folk}}}}}
Amy, as a relative newcomer I know you (probably) better than I knew your father. Like “not much.” But you might be able to tell from these people that you are welcome here as Amy, not just as your father’s daughter. Please don’t be a stranger. Stick around and learn why your dad loved them as much as they loved him.
Amy, thank you so much for coming here and thinking of us. You know that you will forever be part of our SD family, just as your father will be. I was thinking of your family over the Christmas holidays and wishing you well. I am very glad to hear how you are getting along.
I just want you to know that when your father died, it had a tremendous impact on me and since that day, I have lived my life to the fullest each and every minute. I cried for days for your loss and ours but I know that somewhere your Dad is doling out a well-deserved “putz” every now and then.
Please come back and visit us whenever you can. We really enjoy hearing from you!
{{{{{Amy and family}}}}}
Oh, I’m so glad to hear that you are all coping well. And thank you so very much for touching base with us again.
Your dad was very special to so many of us, even ones like me who hardly post. I’m glad to say I knew him, even for a little while.
Wishing you all the very best in the new year,
3Bunnymama
I thought about you and your family all through christmas - I still miss your dad.
Much love to you & yours,
Kelli
I’ve waited long enough.
I never spoke to your Dad.
I wasnt a member while he was.
Ill tell you this though…
I have never known in all my travels a man who has made so many close friends.Frankly I’m jealous. Jealous of the people who knew him.
You should be so very proud of your father
Hardly a day passes that I don’t think about your dad, Amy. I’ve got one of the :wally: buttons that Baglady created, sitting right here next to my computer.
While the details were almost as hard for me to read as they were for you to post, thank you for posting them. They have brought some closure to many of us, I’m sure.
May your deity bless and keep you, Amy, jane_says, and the rest of your family. I hope to see you back here someday.
{{{{Amy & family}}}}
You have been in many of our thoughts as the days have passed as it can be seen. I had wanted several times to know how you and your family had been doing. It is good to hear that you are recovering from the loss and that your life is begining to also resume. Know that you had a special gift in your father, his humor and good nature could touch others even afar, and even though he was taken too soon, it is to be cherished.
I’m a relative newcomer, but the personality that was your father Wally resounds strongly through the board, even today. It was his presence that inspired me to read through the archives and tributes to him. And in my own memory, I can recall at least 2 threads since my arrival that were from other newcomers inquiring about him.
Your father’s presence and influence has not left the boards–or this community of people who call themselves the ‘Straight Dopers’. He has become an eternal part of it. Cherished by those who knew him, and fondly viewed, even by those who never had the priviledge to speak to him. If you came around and took part in the boards more often, I know it would be obvious to you.
May the Master bless all of you. Have a happy new year, and be witness to the dawn of a new millennium!
-Ashley