My “Retirement” Story

Posted on September 30, 2008
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Within the last year, my husband and I both left our teaching jobs at a university. I had been there off and on for 6.5 years, while he had been there 16. Someone who tried to contact him was told by the university that we had “retired.” We found that quite amusing and even slightly offensive. Retiring is what old people do. I’m the gal who keeps throwing away membership pitches from AARP and coloring my hair so I never see any gray. Like most baby boomers we refuse to grow old, and saying we’

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