With a heavy heart...

[Lomey]

RIP Ara. His quick wit and wisdom will be missed.

 

[Tennessee Dave]

Rest in peace Brother Ara.

 

[Craig Mac]

Sad to hear this, RIP to the shoe guru.

 

[xFreebirdx]

I will miss him.

 

[GoBison]

RIP Ara - my condolences to the family and brothers/sisters of the BOTL community.

 

[Jfire]

Rest In Peace Brother. I’m glad to be able to have met such a fine person in life.


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[jasonsbeer]

Sad news indeed.
Catch you on the other side, Ara.

 

[jwintosh]

Just learned of this. Ara, you will be missed. You will always be one of the good guys. Solid, unwavering. Sad day.

 

[RevSmoke]

Praying for his family in their hour of grief.

Peace of the Lord be with you.

 

[BigSkySmoke]

RIP Ara...Damn that's sad. Thoughts out to the family.

 

[redneck_toy]

Just reading this. Prayers go out for his family.
Godspeed Ara. I'll miss your dry humor around here

 

[Jfire]

Last night as I thought about your awesome personality and just how down to earth you were.
Cheers,
Ara


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[The Munt]

I frequent here a lot less than I used to but I can tell it's been a rough 12 months...

Ara, please rest in peace brother. You will be missed mate.

And to the greater BOTL community good vibes for a good 2018.

 

[UnkleBead]

So sad. RIP bud.

 

[Hoshneer]

Damn.... He was a great BOTL.
Rest in peace brother.

 

[Eric]

I remember one of first times I met Ara in person.
He was driving a few other BOTL’s and I around to a cigar event when I nearly said the lord’s name in vain before quickly stopping myself (out of respect that he’s a reverend).
I started to sink down in my seat in shame and he whipped his head around to face me with a stern look only to then bust out with laughter!

And that epitomizes our relationship even to the end.
I told him shortly after his diagnosis that I felt bad for banning him all those times and that I should have been banning cancer instead, to which he quipped “Yup, it’s all your fault”.

His last blog post is titled Beautiful sleep.
Ara - I pray you are now sleeping beautifully and “cigaring” up there with @openendstraight @Big Cle @TreeFrog Frank @rev.b et. al.

I love you and miss you brother. Save me a seat!

 

[mthhurley]

Ara was put to rest today and I am happy that a couple of our BOTL’s were able to make it to the services to represent us.

Tonight, I will smoke a few for him and have a drink of his favorite single malt, Oban.

Missing you already bro.

 

[smokemifugotem]

Going to miss you brother!

Nothing cooler than 5 dudes in a convertible mustang rental rolling through a checkers parking lot before hitting up Andy’s...

We have had some amazing times over the past 10 years together...but none will top that, laughed pretty damn hard

Going to miss you but glad the pain is over. Keep an eye on us idjuts and hope you are having a Garo with the fellas right about now.

Thank you for everything for both me and my family.

We truly lost someone special...you will never be forgotten. Love you man

 

[mthhurley]

Ara - I pray you are now sleeping beautifully and “cigaring” up there with @openendstraight @Big Cle @TreeFrog Frank @rev.b et. al.

E posted this and it struck me hard and I thought it worth sharing the history of "cigaring".
A number of years ago, I had to drive somewhere on a business trip and as I tend to do, I have a smoke or 3 on my road trips.
This particular trip home, I had to unexpectedly pick my young son up as I was getting back off the road, he was probably 6 or 8 years old at the time. My boys know that I smoke cigars but I didn't do it in front of them.
I picked my son up and he jumps in the car and goes "eeeewwww....were you cigaring in here?!"
I shared this funny story with our group chat friends and Ara laughed at it...and thus, the verb cigaring was born.
From that day forward, Ara asked us just about every day in our chat "Anyone cigaring?"
I will miss that.

 

[jwintosh]

lemon bars