Good one, Wilson!

Good one, Wilson!

Nine years, nowhere

My best man, Chris Daffey died by suicide nine years ago today. None of his friends or family knew about his depression. I've now lived my forties without him. He was loved by so many people.

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Tony Wilson
Dec 21, 2022
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Our wedding day, 2008. Harves signs the card. Daff watches on.

Lifeline number is 131114. Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636.

I love this photo. So many of the photos I have of Daff are of his ‘photo face’ which he could produce in an instant — a beaming, pearly-white smile that was fine in isolation, but which was a little too ‘real estate agent’ for mine across a…

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