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SENTINEL ESTATE PROVIDER
Survivorship Variable Universal Life Insurance Policy
issued by
National Life Insurance Company
Supplement dated January 8, 1999 to Prospectus dated May 1, 1998
On January 1, 1999, National Life Insurance Company ("National Life")
converted from a mutual life insurance company to a stock life insurance
company, all of the outstanding stock of which is indirectly owned by a newly
formed mutual insurance holding company, National Life Holding Company. All
policyholders of National Life, including Owners of the Policies, have become
voting members of National Life Holding Company. The contractual rights of
Owners of the Policies have not changed.
