arah stared at her laptop screen for the third hour that morning, tweaking her retirement calculator for what felt like the hundredth time this month. "If I delay retirement by just six more months," she thought, "I could increase my safe withdrawal rate by 0.2%." Three years later, she's still making the same calculation while her dream of traveling with her husband grows more distant each day.
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