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As confronting and difficult as it is to read, I am printing your letter in full. I receive letters like this all too often – each carrying its uniquely special heartbreak and each with its own tragic details, but all uniformly unjust and desperately sad. They course unabated through The Red Hand Files, in all their enormity, like a great sorrowing river. Your letter will be difficult for anyone to read, but it will also take many of us back, with a shudder of recognition, to our own times of sadness and loss. We grievers know, Mark. We recognise in your letter the bottomless sorrow, the outrage, the desperation, the helplessness, the feelings of cosmic betrayal. We understand the sense of having nowhere to rest our minds that is not full of the darkest treachery. We know what it’s like to be confronted with the impossibility of a future life and the feeling that things will never be bearable again. Many of us also know the ghastly mechanics of planning the funeral of a child midst the

Issue #270 / January 2024 Not a question at all. On Sat the 30 December my beautiful 16yo son Murray took his own life. He was contacted online by what he believed was a girl he knew. He was extorted and then panicked, hanging himself. He was a wonderful guy who drew beautifully, played guitar and was a straight A student. He was private person and hated being the centre of attention. His world would have crashed around him at the thought of sexual pictures with his peer group. Our hearts are broken, literally agony. The song we have chosen for the reflection piece at his funeral on Friday in

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