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00:00Did I ever think I'd be in this situation? Not in a million years. Not in a million years

00:14I had this perfect life. And then it went.

00:17It stopped singing.

00:19Huh?

00:20Keep singing it.

00:21I, I have no one. I, I have nothing.

00:30What are you, walking by? No one else, nothing but a ghost.

00:40I, I who have nothing. I, I who have no one.

00:53Adore you and want you so. I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but a heart.

01:06It just tastes brilliant.

01:07I love you.

01:15Bless him.

01:17How do you feel when you see videos of him?

01:20It's really lovely. It's really weird. But it's painfully beautiful.

01:30Government figures show just last year 5,656 people died from suicide in England.

01:36More than 4,000 were male, less than 1,500 were female.

01:41Of that total, 866 people died from suicide in the South East.

01:46More than 620 were male and around 240 female.

01:53If you don't mind, can I just chuck my little...

01:56It's your signature.

01:57It's my signature, yes, because he would always say,

02:00you're not you without your red lipstick, so I wouldn't even put the bins up without it on.

02:05I made sure that when Maxie died, that every single day I'd wear it.

02:09Every single day without fail. Doesn't matter, rain, shine, whatever.

02:13And the thing with Max was that it was such a shock and it lasted several weeks.

02:17It wasn't just the initial, let's tell everybody, how do we tell everybody?

02:22It went on for the rest of that academic year because he was in the upper sixth when it happened.

02:27This is great because the school that he loved will always have this here for him.

02:34But yeah, I think it's time now to do something myself, I think, and commemorate that boy.

02:44Can I get up and sit now?

02:46Yeah.