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“Hi, Janice!” said the caller that
morning, a confident-sounding man
named Alan. “Do you have time to
talk?”
Dr. Dorn did not have time. A day
trader who prides herself on being in
and out of trading positions every half
hour, she was eager to start trading.
But Dorn heard a desperate note in
Alan’s voice. She agreed to take the
call.
Alan was a sixty-year-old midwesterner
who struck Dorn as a salt-of-theearth
type, hardworking and loyal. He
had the jovial and assertive manner of
an extrovert, and he maintained his
good cheer despite the story of disaster
he proceeded to tell. Alan and his wife
had worked all their lives, and managed
to sock away a million dollars for
retirement. But four months earlier he’d
gotten the idea that, despite having no
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