>I'm rooting for you, and like you, I had every ounce of skin in the game. My retirement, my daughters college. Everything.

>Understand that things don't always work out the way you intend. Starting over when you are my age is very hard. Consider me as a cautionary tale.

I'm pulling for him too, but I have the awful feeling that I'm reading the story of a guy blowing his savings, ruining his credit, and maybe taking mom down with him.