Welcome to Kiplinger's My First $1 Million series, in which we hear from people who have made $1 million.

They're sharing how they did it and what they're doing with it.

This time, we hear from a 62-year-old married and retired man in West Lakeland, Minnesota. As a regional business manager in the medical field, he earned a salary of $180,000 to $300,000 and retired at age 51.

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See our earlier profiles, including a writer in New England , a literacy interventionist in Colorado , a semiretired entrepreneur in Nashville and an events industry CEO in Northern New…