Twelve years of Christmases

My best man took his own life twelve years ago. Like everyone who has lost someone they love to suicide, I flailed in the aftermath. I still flail, especially in the week before Christmas.

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Part of the problem is understanding depression. My friend’s name was Chris Daffey. We met in 1996 when we were starting our first day of articles at Minter Ellison. He was so effortlessly funny, charismatic, intelligent. Even now, a news story breaks and I wish Daff was the one deconstructing it for me, not be…