I am most grateful to my best friend and husband, Kurt Feuerherm,
for his amazing support throughout these last four years; to my long-
time friend, Chris Hutchinson, for her feedback and encouragement;
to my nephew, Rob McConnell, for his thoughtful input; and finally,
to my niece, Rhea Bowen, sister, Kathy McConnell, and friends Diane
and Shelly Berlyn, Ray Demaio, Jan Kellner, Marie Tedeschi, Kristine
Bouyoucos, and Lorraine and Marty Rosenbaum, for their support
throughout this entire project.
I especially want to acknowledge and thank my coauthor, Anne
Coon, for her amazing ability to weave together all the pieces of this
project, from survey data to interview narratives and focus group dis-
cussions, and make them into a coherent, readable story that reflects
the voices, knowledge, and lives of the women, who found, devel-
oped, and are now exiting their full-time careers only to establish, yet
again, a new paradigm for retirement.
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