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Retirement is a bitch.

Retirement is a bitch. // Your wife has passed away. Most of your mates are in exile, prison, or the grave. Even the cops you once eluded have died, retired, or forgotten you. You skulk around your run-down mansion in the suburbs of London, puttering in your garden, infuriating your neighbours by running a used-car dealership out of your home, and “hobbling over to the news agent,” as one neighbour put it, for the daily papers to read about younger men doing what you used to. // This was the life of Brian Reader at 76. // Read the full text, “The biggest jewel heist in British history,” by Mark Seal for Vanity Fair (2016, March 19).

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/03/biggest-jewel-heist-in-british-history

Retirement is a bitch. // Your wife has passed away. Most of your mates are in exile, prison, or the grave. Even the cops you once eluded have died, retired, or forgotten you. You skulk around your run-down mansion in the suburbs of London, puttering in your garden, infuriating your neighbours by running a used-car dealership out of your home, and “hobbling over to the news agent,” as one neighbour put it, for the daily papers to read about younger men doing what you used to. // This was the life of Brian Reader at 76. // Read the full text, “The biggest jewel heist in British history,” by Mark Seal for Vanity Fair (2016, March 19).

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