Add it all up, and Chestnut's married clients shell out practically all of their monthly income on living expenses, scraping to save anything beyond a retirement plan contribution.

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Claiming that the richest promise lay in the trickiest of tasks, she presented him with the now historic chestnut, embedded in its prickly shell.

ECONOMIST: Rudolf Scharping, measured German warrior