I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.