the thread announcing his death<\/a> attracted over 800 comments and so far has been read nearly 30,000 times.<\/p>\n![\"Funeral](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sam-hiller-funeral-greenwich-03.jpg\" "\\"sam-hiller-funeral-greenwich-03\\"")
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Today’s funeral was sad, beautiful, melancholic, moving, funny and tragic, and the sound of the choir – who Sam used to sing for – was unbelievably moving.<\/p>\n
RIP Sam.\u00a0You touched many, many lives and the world won’t be the same without you.<\/p>\n
And Buckfast sales are going to take a dip too.<\/p>\n
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