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Barbara Bershad and her book of wisdom.

gets to be 50. I believe in celebrating
the good things."
Special to The Jewish News
Planning the party was important
to Bershad. She wrote a poem that
ears ago, women lied about
served as the invitation. Instead of
getting older. They hoped
gifts, she asked for notecards with
for the decade markers to
quotes of inspiration and pearls of
pass unnoticed.
wisdom, sayings like those she has col-
These days, more women are invit-
lected all of her
ing friends, fami-
life. From those
ly and co-work-
cards she
ers to help them
planned to cre-
celebrate.
ate a scrapbook
Ambivalence is
to remember the
often present,
affair.
but it's not about
Last June, Ber-
age.
shad's family
The year
and 45 women
before Barbara
friends came
Bershad turned
together at the
50, she lost her
Sky
line Club.
mother and her
"Although I
mother-in-law.
missed my
As her birthday
mother, it was
approached, she
great having my
was grieving her
husband, chil-
losses and didn't
dren and friends
feel like cele-
Roseanne Kukes
around me.
brating. But her
focused
on
celebrating
life.
There
aren't
family wanted to
many times in
make a party for
your life where you get to have all
her, and she knew her mother would
your friends around you," she said.
have wanted that, too.
Donna Rosen, catering manager at
"Getting older is really a good
thing," said Bershad. "Not everyone
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