WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Tracie Laymon grew up in Texas and made a lifelong connection with a family in Wichita. It all began on Facebook when Tracie was looking for her dad.
“My dad would sometimes get angry and disappear and not call me back or email me back, and one of these times, I thought, ‘Maybe he’s on Facebook,’” Tracie said. “I put his name into Facebook and accidentally friended another man with the same name in Wichita. And that man was kind to me just for the sake of being kind and ended up being kind of more fatherly than my dad had been to me at that time.”
Although they never met in person, Tracie’s friendship with Bob Laymon lasted nine years.
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“There was just a lot of healing that happened,” Tracie said. “For example, every year on my birthday, my dad never said happy birthday in those nine years, but every year like clockwork, it would say ‘Bob Laymon says happy birthday.’”
Tracie says she always wanted to say thank you to Bob for the impact he had on her life.