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When family emergencies derail careful retirement planning

I have been saving for retirement since I was twenty-five like a good Canadian, but my Pakistani husband's family had a medical emergency that wiped out half our savings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The luxury of long-term planning assumes a stability that family love and duty can shatter in an instant.

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