Six years ago, in her home in Morristown, New Jersey, Barbara Hill’s spirit animal walked through her front door. “She was absolutely ancient,” Hill recalls. “I was 61 or 62, but this woman was almost a hundred or something. It was clearly a retirement job for her.”
At the time, Hill had a big job selling Web-based video conferencing and had no plans to retire anytime soon. She had taken out a loan on her home, and the bank had sent a loan signing agent to her home to walk her through the paperwork. That was the old lady. “She struck me deeply,” Hill says. “I asked her a million questions. Turns out she was doing it to supplement her Social Security.”
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