This is a candle of joy; Karen Nielsen Fried writes this also for gratitude and amazement for her mother Edith Nielsen who will celebrate her 100th birthday on June 19th surrounded by family who will come in from Denmark, China, Denver, Minnesota and all the other states in the United States. Edith has had a rich and full life raising six kids and now she has eight grandchildren and five great grands. A lifelong Danish citizen, she was a student in Copenhagen during World War II and part of the resistance during the Nazi occupation.