Cynthia Rothstein: married, 3 children, from New York

Best friend of 35 years: Naomi Neft, married, 2 children, a lifelong New Yorker who joked that Bloomingdale’s was her summer home, died ... from breast cancer in 2015 at age 74

Robin Lippman-Scharf: 59, married, 2 children, from upstate New York, social worker

Best friend of 47 years: Ronee Kim Brimberg-Clark, married, 1 child, social worker, died ... from ovarian cancer at age 58

Dr. Elizabeth Hale: 42, married, 3 children, from New York, a dermatologist

Best friend of 13 years: Dr. Amy Rosenblatt Solomon, married, 3 children, a pediatrician living in Maryland, died ... sudden death due to an anomalous right coronary artery in 2007 at age 38

Lindsay Kavet: 38, married, 3 children, from Los Angeles, a director and stay-at-home mom

Best friend of 11 years: Polly Mae Tolonen, a working actress in Los Angeles, well-known regular in the theatre scene and a muse to many, died ... in a car crash in 2008

Holly Starkman: 57, married, 1 child, psychotherapist and adjunct professor

Best friend of 25 years: Marcia Golden, divorced, 2 children, school psychologist, committed suicide in 2013 at age 86

Amy P: 57, married

Best friend of 28 years: Chris Z, married, artist, committed suicide at age 56