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COMPANY HELPS THE OFFENDED HAVE FUN WHILE GETTING EVEN

Published: Monday, Nov. 7, 1988 12:00 a.m. MST
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Nan Berman has a suggestion for all spurned lovers, tyrannized employees and anyone who's had an especially bad day: don't get mad, get even. And she'd be glad to help.

Her month-old business "Enough is Enough," billed as "creative revenge for today's world," already has mailed a three-foot, dead bluefish to a philandering husband in California and delivered a burned and messy suit to a lawyer who implied his girlfriend was "unsuitable" for him.More common requests among those wronged, however, are the 13 dead roses, sent in a beribboned black box ($25), or 13 black balloons tied together by a single dead red rose ($30).

Other "insults to suit the occasion" include a real stuffed shirt ($25) for pompous bosses and drinking glasses with cigarette butts on the bottom for obnoxious smokers.

"Twenty years ago, people didn't speak up the way they do now," said Berman. "But since the '60s, people have expressed themselves. And with me, you really have a way to vent things out."

Berman, 43, was inspired to start "Enough is Enough" after a year spent driving a florist delivery truck for a boss she said was the "most unpleasant person ever born."

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"She never smiled, she was just miserable," said Berman. " I hung in there for a year but I was so sick of it. I thought - I can get this same atmosphere by making a business out of it."

Berman financed her venture with $30,000, some of it from her husband, a businessman. She prowled bargain-basement department stores and gift shows for ideas. She brought back artifacts such as a cloth witch on a stick (for "those witchy people on brooms"), porcelain pigs ("for people on a diet") and real kites (to send those for whom you want to tell "go fly a kite").

She buys her dead roses for $5 for several dozens at the Boston Flower Exchange and purchases other items in bulk. Her material is a combination of specialty store items from joke shops and objects she finds.

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