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Not Your Father's Retirement

Turning 65 today is different than it used to be: Baby boomers refuse to grow old!

by: Joe Queenan, from: AARP, January 4, 2011

En español |By contrast, people turning 65 today can go see the musical heroes that brightened their youth any day of the week, because they never really went away. Paul McCartney recently played the Apollo in Harlem. Keith Richards just released his autobiography. Aretha Franklin, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Smokey Robinson and Paul Simon are all very much alive and kicking. Well, alive.
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