Three words, and Robin Huffman’s life changed. A senior design executive who’d lived all over the world, she’d recently relocated to Manhattan. It was 1999, and the design industry, like a lot of other industries, was booming.

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But let me back up. To the day I resigned from my banking job.

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Remember that apartment I told you about? My “dream home in my dream city”? “Room-with-a-view sort of place”? As I wrote in my last entry in this series, my Manhattan apartment had been my dream, but was quickly turning itself into my prison. Everything in it: the art, the designer furniture, even the air-conditioning; reminded me that I was existing on borrowed time. Better said, perhaps:..

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