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Beyond Gold: What Happens After You Achieve Your Biggest Goal?

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Gymnast Carly Patterson was just 16 when her dazzling performance at the 2004 Athens Olympics made her the second American woman ever to win the all-around competition. After retiring from gymnastics at 18, Patterson released an album, aptly named Back to the Beginning. “I’ve At 18, following medical advice, she retired.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020. Fox grew up in a loving, supportive family that settled in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby after his father retired.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. With a passion for “building the green, clean, knowledge-rich future,” she founded her company, Ethical Markets Media LLC , in 2004, when she was 72. “I Women of all ages are launching businesses. I have a lot of fun,” she said. “We

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Give a care? Give a share!

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Add it to the list of things to try again when I am retired. But she learned of the presence of scorpions and tarantulas in northern arizona and was concerned how much of a problem that would be for her in gardening. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. A Virtual Assistant’s Blog » All I need is $4.59

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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On its journey to discovering what it means to be Real, the Velveteen Rabbit learns that, in the end, it’s to have someone love you and to be able to accept that love in return. It’s the most thorough study of human lives that’s ever been done,” said George Vaillant, director of the study from 1972 to 2004.

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