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Why the Concept of Retirement Is Destructive and Needs to Be Replaced
By Prudy Gourguechon — 2018
As long as we keep using the word retirement or any derivative such as “the new retirement,” that whiff of withdrawal, of closure, of endings will linger. And so will visions of what the word evoked a generation ago.
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