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Somewhere in America, a 62-year-old couple is sitting at the kitchen table with Social Security statements and a calculator. Both husband and wife have been working for roughly 40 years. They are healthy and good at their jobs, but they ponder leaving the workforce. Travel, time with family, and maybe even some golf beckons. The decision is theirs, and there is nothing easy about it.