26. Harry Leary "was always helpful to everybody"-"even kids"-"never rude or anything"-"he lived it"

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2025-11-11

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26. Harry Leary was always helpful to everyone, even kids. He was also an avid mentor and a woman once reached out to tell Kyle that Harry was her daughter’s best friend. Her daughter turned out to be about 8 years old - Kyle sent her the jersey Harry was wearing in the picture that was originally shared with him. 

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Yeah. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> He was But he was always helpful to
>> He was But he was always helpful to everybody, even kids. He was never rude
everybody, even kids. He was never rude or anything to anybody.
or anything to anybody. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> Kids would come up and he he'd just tell
>> Kids would come up and he he'd just tell them what to do, you know, oh, you need
them what to do, you know, oh, you need to do this and that and he, you know, he
to do this and that and he, you know, he just lived it. He lived it.
just lived it. He lived it. >> That's awesome. And one of my I love you
>> That's awesome. And one of my I love you mentioned kids because I found it to be
mentioned kids because I found it to be a common factor is where he's done a lot
a common factor is where he's done a lot of mentorship.
of mentorship. >> Yeah. And there's a lot of people that
>> Yeah. And there's a lot of people that I've talked with that grew up with him
I've talked with that grew up with him mentoring them. But one thing that was
mentoring them. But one thing that was really cool is there was a [crying]
>> Yeah. >> But there was this woman that reached
>> But there was this woman that reached out to me when I first started this
out to me when I first started this journey and says, "Hey, Harry Larry was
journey and says, "Hey, Harry Larry was my daughter's best friend." And I was
my daughter's best friend." And I was thinking,
thinking, >> "Yeah,
>> "Yeah, >> okay." Like, "All right, cool." Like
>> okay." Like, "All right, cool." Like she's like in her 40s or 50s, like
she's like in her 40s or 50s, like >> whatever. and she sent a picture and she
>> whatever. and she sent a picture and she was like eight. I'm like, "Okay, you
was like eight. I'm like, "Okay, you just melt in my heart."
just melt in my heart." >> Yeah, he was good about that.

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