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"I actually was not planning on retiring from Blue Cross this early," she says, adding that she had always imagined she would go into something completely different when she retired, like community theater.

Her decision to leave BCBS came about because she was in a "grandfathered pension program" that was based on the cost of living and interest rates. The recession was moving those numbers in the wrong direction; had she stayed on, she would have lost a lot of money.