Go back to school at forty-four

He arrived with the arithmetic already done twice and both times it said no, so we left the money alone for a session and looked at what he was actually asking, which was whether it was too late to be a beginner in a room full of people half his age. The third session was about his daughter, who turned out to be the only person in the family who was not worried. We finished by finding the version that was survivable: part time, four years, one course deferred. He started in September.