However, whereas those who failed to achieve longevity are dead, a proportion of those who failed to celebrate theirgoldenweddinganniversaryare alive but widowed.
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At my father'sgoldenweddinganniversary, a former official of the college was proposing a toast and told this story.
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She was 103 when she flew on an airplane to celebrate thegoldenweddinganniversaryof one her sons.
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Clear evidence of this trend is the record number of golden wedding anniversaries and even longer marital jubilees.
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