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Kiplinger
Business
Alina Tugend

A Disability Doesn’t Have to Force an Early Retirement

Worker in wheelchair talking to colleague.

Robyn Dochterman has owned a chocolate shop in Marine on St. Croix, Minn., since 2010 and has spent a lot of those 13 years putting chocolate in molds and flipping them out. 

This repetitive motion has damaged her hands, and although she has had a few procedures and an operation to fix the problem, it keeps returning. For the past several years, Dochterman, 61, has been trying to figure out how she can keep working and manage her pain. 

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