Optimistically speaking:

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Heading off to college at the age of 40, I was a bit self-conscious about my advancing years. One morning I complained to my husband that I was the oldest student in my class. “Even the teacher is younger than I am,” I said. “Yeah, but look at it from my point of view,” he said optimistically. “I thought my days of fooling around with college girls were over.”