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Back in October 2003, I left a corporate career as a department store buyer with a nice reliable paycheck and benefits– including health insurance –to join my husband in the land of self-employment. This house was less than what the bank said we could afford. I met my husband in October. We married in October.

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Bank stocks were in receivership, companies were going through bankruptcy and the estate was very small. The highest priced annual report I saw was a collection of Bear-Sterns reports from 1997 – 2003 and 2005. Letter after letter surfaced, conveying the devastating news that the investments her husband had made were now worthless.