The board I belong to lost one of its favorite members last week. We knew him as Buddy Roe. He had fought a hard fight against cancer, but the nasty disease finally got the best of him.
He was a good guy, one of those who always had something nice to say to everyone. He was someone the world could use more of. He would joke about his illness, possibly to keep the rest of us from worrying too much about him, but we still worried, we couldn't help but worry. We knew he was ill and we knew what cancer could do, some of us had seen its destruction before or experienced it ourselves.
One of Buddy's greatest pleasures was going to his house in the country. You could just feel the contentment he felt there just by the words he wrote. He loved the country and the country loved him. It let him forget, even for a little while, about his illness. It let him feel alive again, as if he wasn't ill.
We are not the only ones who will miss Buddy, he had a partner and family who loved him very much and will miss him even more because they had the privilege of knowing him in real life, not as a name on a message board.
May you rest in peace Buddy in the knowledge that you were loved and admired by many, many of which only knew you by the words you wrote on a message board.
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