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Happiest Time of Life


Gail Sheehy, quoted in Homemade, November, 1984

The greatest happiness usually comes not in youth, but in old age. Men generally are happiest during their middle sixties, women during their seventies.

Unhappiest time: early fifties for men, late forties for women.