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I recently turned seventy and thought of my parents who are no longer here to share my milestone birthday. I think about my parents almost daily and “talk” to them several times per week. In a recent Yizkor Sermon Rabbi Neil Zuckerman gave me comfort when he said, “Death ends a life but is does not end a relationship; it merely changes the format.” This is one of the most comforting constructs that I have ever encountered.