Catherine Bruhwiler is an enviable woman. She leads a life that sounds so fantastic that it remains, at least for about 99 percent of humanity, just that: a dropout dream. Simply too good to be true. Actually, such ideas are doomed to not survive the return flight from vacation or at the latest the 30th birthday. Ideas like: I'm sailing around the world. I'm moving to a desert island.

Or even: I will become a surfer. Yes, of course, and what are you studying? And what about your retirement plan?

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