I was calm the day Deanna Bala died. Beloved wife and mother of three, she was a character in Channel 5's long-running Kin. If you get all your information about the vicissitudes of life from the soap opera, you may think real people offer condolences to those in mourning like its characters.
These included platitudes such as "You should be happy (Deanna) passed away peacefully" or "It's hard for me, too, but life goes on and keeping busy definitely helps".
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