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That Friday night smelled like stale coffee and desperation. My trembling fingers left greasy smudges on the tablet screen as Bloomberg charts bled red - another 7% nosedive while I'd been trapped in back-to-back meetings. Retirement felt like a cruel joke whispered between spreadsheet cells. How could my fragmented index funds possibly recover? I'd cobbled together what finance blogs called a "diversified portfolio," but watching it unravel felt like witnessing a slow-motion train wreck from th

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Rain lashed against my windshield like thrown gravel as I squinted through the gloom somewhere between Amarillo and oblivion. My knuckles whitened around the steering wheel when *that* light flickered – that mocking orange petrol pump symbol burning through the dashboard darkness. Every driver knows this visceral dread: the stomach-drop moment when distance and emptiness merge into pure vulnerability. I'd been here before, years ago on a Utah backroad, walking three miles with a jerrycan while c

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