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Excellent, my man.

I'm meandering toward that. I figured I'd work until 70 or later. But now at 55, things are starting to look better that I could bow out sooner. It's the question of how much comfort I want now and how long I can stand the madness.

I do want to be like you when I grow up. I would like to move to France or to possibly Florida for retirement, for different reasons. Florida is a wild west show of a state but a lot of my best friends have moved there. France, I just love France. But my wife says no to both. So I think a compromise might be somewhere along the Shenandoah. She's become fond of it from our travels to JMU to see our daughters. Now if I work a little longer, I can see a vacation home in France, though, lol.

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Posted: 01/13/2022 at 11:26AM

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