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Businesses have jumped in to meet the need for new online services that cater to life's milestones. Even before birth, mothers can start a pregnancy journal and continue recording highlights on the child's Web page. National stores such as Bloomingdale's give couples online wedding planning advice and wedding Web pages, where guests can learn about the engaged couple, get details of the wedding schedule, find out where to stay, and even see registries at competing stores. Today, going online to remember a loved one with a eulogy, a poem, a photo, or a virtual lit candle is commonplace. Although most tributes are on personal and organizational Web pages, CitizensMemorial.org, CyberspaceMemorial.com, InMemoriam.org, MemorialGardens.com, and VirtualMemorials.com help people carve out corners of the Net in remembrance of loved ones or pets.
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Life's Milestones Are Celebrated Online
Not too long ago, a beloved business professor was suddenly stricken with a paralyzing illness. E-mails about his devastating situation spread rapidly among his wide circles of friends, acquaintances, students, readers, and clients. For a short while, those who really cared but who weren't close personal friends found it hard to keep up with his touch-and-go condition and to send encouraging messages.
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