Robert Lee took out student loans 29 years ago to put his children through college. At 71, the Auburn, Maine, resident still owes $51,000 (£38,800) of the original $66,000 (£50,200), a balance he has carried for nearly three decades.
'I feel like Jimmy Stewart in the movie It's a Wonderful Life. I'm worth more dead than I am alive,' Lee told The Wall Street Journal.
