
by
mrwzrd
Tue Dec 16th, 2008 10:42am
(from bordom.net)
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You never want to hear the words that come with such a phone call. "We are all wiped out." But they came, and we went numb. We lost, on paper, $1.2 million. My wife's family's combined losses are close to $30 million. We're talking old ladies and men, lawyers, children with Madoff trusts, students in college and an array of others who thought they had the world beat and they did, at least for a time.