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KNOWN FOR hosting highly successful neighborhood New Year’s Eve parties, Kathy Wright faced her first New Year’s Eve last December without her husband of 18 years by br- inging other widows and widowers into her home. .

Known for the bellydancing, Tahitian, Hawaiian and tap danc- “jag classes she offers to adults out of her home studio, Wright's jolly attitude towards life suffered a great setback with the sudden death of her husband Wally last year.

New Year’s is a particularly dif- ficult time for those who have been widowed, and Wright, thinking back to the parties she and her husband gave, decided to invite some of the people she had met through bereavement groups in the past year.

The guests ‘did not know each other very well, but after supper they loosened up with some parlor games.

“The awful burden went away for awhile,’’ says Wright.

“None of us wanted to put our grief on others at that time, but we knew how to handle each other,’ she says.

After toasting their loved ones as the old year passed, the group vowed to continue getting

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together. Since then, Wright has organized a number of dinners, bowling meets and other activities.

“‘They call me the cruise direc- tor,’’ laughs Wright.

Wright maintains that she is helping herself while helping others. °

“I now understand that it is no tribute to the person who is gone to wallow in grief and go down — it’s a gift from Wally that I’ve been able to grow.”’

Wright, a great believer in sup- port groups, says that we will never know what it is like to lose a loved one until it happens.

“The tough partis learning to live again,’’ says Wright.

Dancing is one of the ways that Wright keeps up with the living. Joining up a-‘number of years ago with her 68-year-old tap dance partner Collin Campbell, Kathy

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