My friend's father recently died a rather public death, and my poor friend is having to do his grieving with TV cameras stuck in his face and investigations going on. I'm going to call him later tonight to pay my condolences, but I have no idea what to say to him. I know that when someone dies it's good to get the mourners to talk about him and tell stories about him, but I don't want to be like all the reporters demanding, "Tell me about your dad!" And there's nothing else I can really talk about with him to cheer him up, as his whole year has been pretty bad (he hates his job and gave up on his career dreams, and he's trapped in a dull relationship, and his parents got divorced a year ago and he took that pretty hard, etc). So when I call, what should I say??


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that's how my conversation would go.

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