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I retired from the Federal Government last year after 34 years of employment. How long was I planning on retiring for the past 34 years. Retirement was one of the most important events in my life and I started to plan for my retirement the day that I started working. I had seen from my parents and grandparents that they did not have a retirement plan and all that they were surviving off of was Social Security benefits. That was not going to be my course of action. I began to put money away the day I started to work, I felt that I did not have any money to begin with and if I put away a set...
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