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Color Me.....dead!

The Chicago Tribune INC. column (January 14, 2001) reports that Carole Jackson, author of one-time best seller "Color Me Beautiful" which defined women by "season," says that women across the country now stipulate what color fabric they want to line their caskets.

In related news from the same column, casketfurniture.com now offers coffee tables, sofas, entertainment centers, and such, which can be later used for burial purposes.  When the time comes, these efficient furnishings "snap together to form a satin-bedded coffin."

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