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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by aerotwelve on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:53PM (#17224200)
It's common when it's my (the speaker's) dead body, not someone else's body, particularly when you refer to them by name.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sjwright on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:02PM (#17224243)
I agree that the first-person usage is more common, relatively speaking.
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