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My best man and my best friend

There's a Speakola episode dedicated to my best man, Chris Daffey, who died by suicide nine years ago today. This is a tribute copied from my personal blog, and a transcript of my eulogy. RIP Daff.

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Dec 21, 2022
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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 whole album. Daff loved his photo face and hated pictures wit…

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