After Graduation, I Took One Quiet Step to Protect My Future. It Turned Out to Matter

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I set my mug down slowly. My hands were steady. That surprised me.

My name is Emily Carter. I’m twenty-six years old, and I work as an accountant for a mid-sized firm downtown. I’m the kind of person who triple-checks numbers, who keeps an emergency fund, who reads contracts before signing them, who believes in the quiet kind of security that continue reading …