Bernard Madoff on Shine

How I survived the Madoff scandal

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by Kim Rosen
Last night I dreamed that Bernard Madoff returned my life’s savings. The memo line of the check simply said, "Sorry." In the dream, I’d written him a letter in Butner Federal Prison, explaining that the day I found out he’d stolen all my money, a poem had saved my life. "Before you know what kindness really is," the poem began, "you must lose things."

Fingering that check, I felt my body relax for the first time in almost a year. Suddenly, everything I have given up since my loss — the home I longed for, the work I could no longer afford to do with Maasai girls in Kenya, the new clothes I had to return after the theft — all were possible again. In my dream, I hoped Madoff had enough checks with him in jail to send everybody’s money back.

But when I woke, there was no check from Bernie. Again, the wave of grief broke over me, as it does each time I dream I get my money back or never lost it.

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<img alt="Getty Images" title="Getty Images" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/phugc/inLiG0.0_GJ5/photos/bbdc97b2f9f1a4ea71accafaf9f83994/ori_59cbfc1457e60e.jpg?ug_____D.iLoAeCt" align="left" width="300" height="200">In this season of layoffs and plummeting 401k accounts, none of us has to look far to find someone affected by this downturn that has, by all accounts, more tough turns to make. There are so many stories of jobs lost, retirement and college savings accounts drastically down, and now, thanks to Bernard Madoff, of entire life savings lost.