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A re we gonna jump or jerk off?’

This was the last text message I received from Gary, one of my best friends since I was 12. It was sent at 11.57pm on Friday 29 September 2023, and a week later I got a phone call telling me that he’d died of a heart attack. He was 50.

‘Are we gonna jump or jerk off?’ No

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