A phone call on August 5, 2005 changed NYU basketball alum Sean Dillon’s life forever. The call was from his father letting him know that Dillon’s stepbrother Tad had taken his own life the previous day.

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“I was working at Bear Stearns (then an investment bank and financial company in New York City) when my dad called,” Dillon recalled vividly. “He was very upset and finally got the words out that Tad had died. I was sharing an office with another lawyer and trying to process what my dad was saying. I asked what happened and when he told me Tad killed himself, I said, ‘I’m coming up’ and I left.”

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