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Deborah Kaercher is one of my favorite women. We met a few years ago when I was shooting a television pilot for PBS called “Girlfriends of a Certain Age.” While a major cut in government funding to the arts ended the series before it began, two great things came from that experience: 1010ParkPlace and my friendship with Deborah Kaercher.

Deborah runs a great nonprofit, The Final Acts Project, focused on developing a healthy dialog among family members, and communities, about aging and death. She’s a woman with a compassionate heart, who thinks about life on more than just a cursory level.

WE HAVE LITTLE EPIPHANIES ALONG THE WAY THAT KEEP NUDGING US INTO OUR SENIOR YEARS.

Here’s part of our conversation that didn’t make it into Deborah’s STYLE INSPIRATION  profile.

DEBORAH: I’d love for somebody to take this little skin here, and snip it off my neck.

BRENDA: Either that or a giant C-clamp back here that I can adjust on a daily basis. I had a consultation with a great plastic surgeon who did a soap opera friend, of a friend of mine. I told him I didn’t want a facelift. I just wanted him to get rid of my neck skin. He shook his head and said, “That’s a facelift, my dear.”

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