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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Chicago and this is something only black people say. Along with "I appreciate you" instead of thank you, and "have a blessed day." I have never heard a white person say that someone "passed". The euphemism they might use is "lost" as in "I lost my brother to cancer last year."[/quote] I'm white. All my life, my relatives and friends have said "passed away". Maybe it's a British thing. The expression I don't like is "sorry for your loss", as if the speaker can't remember my relative's name. It sounds like a comment about financial statements rather than about grief.[/quote]
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