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Retirement: It's a Real Thing

  Retirement: It's a Real Thing I am not someone who looks too far into the future. In my day to day life I don't really think about anything that isn't coming up in the current week. I'm pretty much a day to day person. Our 1 st trip to France we stayed in Provence for a week. All the little towns in Provence have once a week markets and each town has them on different days. The locals seemed to go to a nearby market each day where they would pick up what they needed for the day's food. We did the same while we were there and that planning one day at a time agreed with me. A s I got into my 40s suddenly the idea of me actually retiring became a real thing. Up to that point retirement had been something that was way in the future and not anything I thought too much about. I looked back remembering my first job working for someone. I was 15. It was a summer that went into fall working at a Farm Stand in Syosset on Long Island. It was a large farm sta...