I’m sure that photo front-paged in several newspapers of a respected octogenarian politician with his much younger staff raised eyebrows among matrons, giggles among single women, and sighs (disgust or admiration or envy?) among not a few senior citizens.

But most people, in the middle and upper classes that is, would have a friend (as I do, in fact several) and even a relative who’s found true love in somebody decades younger (for him) or older (for her).

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