After 32 Years of Sacrifice, I Sold My Business for $18 Million and Went Home Early

said. “And I realized that life doesn’t end at sixty-eight. It just changes. In some ways, it’s better.”

“Better how?” I asked.

“No pretenses,” he said. “No careers to build, no children to raise, no performance of the people we’re supposed to be. Just honesty. Just being exactly who we are right now.”

I looked at him across the white tablecloth, at his continue reading …