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            A recent study by researchers David Evans and Terry Lynn Gall concluded that although most Canadian workers viewed retirement as a positive step, only about a third looked forward to it and adjusted well.  In fact, 16 percent of those interviewed saw nothing good about it.

            “We are a society not only obsessed with looks and youth, but also hard work ethics,” declared Marian Marzynski, the producer of the PBS documentary film My Retirement Dreams.  “For those who never slowed down from work, the idea of retirement can be frightening; they don’t know what to do after.”

How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free, Ernie J. Zelinski, page 11