Yet, during a recent gathering of girlfriends, she seemed to be the target of as many cougar jokes as Mariah Carey was in 2008 when she married Nick Cannon. (At 32, Cannon is a decade younger than the singer.) It probably didn't help that, at the start of their relationship, my friend's suitor couldn't legally accompany her to the bar.
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Along with the fog at Torrey Pines, the Tournament of Championship at Kapalua didn't start until Monday because of unusually high wind, and the 54-hole event was completed some 29 hours after the opening tee shot.
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The independent reviewer has also challenged the new two-year-limit on TPims - a restriction that wasn't part of the previous control order regime scrapped at the start of 2012.
They don't just pass a fitness test at the start of the season.
We won't have the advantage we enjoyed at the start of this year this season with, but there's so much confidence in the team, it's going to make a big difference.
"They certainly aren't passing the ball as they were at the start of the season, " says Ritchie.
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"I think at the start I didn't do a good enough job of pressuring him, " Wood said.
"I don't think the fans would have expected it at the start of the season, " he told BBC Radio Merseyside.
His allowance is agreed at the start of his reign and can't be altered, save for inflation, to ensure the king's independence from Parliament.
"I don't have any mixed feelings at all, because at the start of the year Dwain and I had a conversation, " said Campbell, 36.
"At the start of the season I didn't expect to play as much as I did but I've been helped by injuries to others, " said Matthews.
"At the start of the season I wasn't involved and I had to go to and play my football at Sheffield Wednesday, and I'm grateful to the manager there Brian Laws and his assistant Russ Wilcox who gave me an opportunity to go and play again , " he explained.
It's a good idea for some, but most couples don't have a lot of assets to worry about at the start, and many a moony-eyed pair think there's something unromantic about beginning a lifelong commitment with a financial document drafted by lawyers.
Mr. Ghanem suggested, however, that if foreign oil companies didn't send back their staff, who were evacuated at the start of the crisis last month, then Libya would be compelled to offer new oil concessions to other companies from Brazil, China and India in order to restore production and exports to their previous levels.
And now it won't let us go, because of something few considered at the start of the case.
Asking that question shouldn't be the start of a new skirmish in the stay-at-home mom vs. working mom debate.
We don't want to hurry Mikel, we don't hurry any of the players back, but we are looking at the start of next season now.
But, as I said at the start, at least a small part of me can't help thinking Mr Osborne will be a little bit grateful, when he stands up on Budget day, that Robert Chote has reminded everyone how independent he is, even if Downing Street does not feel that way today.
"When all of this kicks in at once, when people decide they can't eat out of the pantry anymore and start buying again, we will see a surge in the economy, " he says.
Of course, that doesn't explain why they only show music videos at 3 AM, but hopefully this is the start of an improvement.
As for business, trade with Europe will continue to suffer from four hours a day when John cannot talk to Johannes or Jean: one hour at the start of the day when he is in the office and they aren't, one at the end when they are and he isn't, and two because of the non-coincidence of their lunch hours.
At the start of this experiment, Sam's and other big discount stores didn't accept food stamps.
It didn't take long for the Scotsman to start turning things round at a club that was then near the bottom of the league.
"At the start of the session, we had way too much understeer and I couldn't do anything with it and then on lap three, the rear started going away, " Button told BBC Sport.
"I don't think it's the easiest of wickets, so I would have settled for that at the start, " he said.
But the laws didn't start working until police effectively started enforcing them, said Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
As usual, all bets are off if the euro blows up, but if the Europeans can manage to hold on to their single currency, the average UK household probably won't get to the end of the year poorer, in real terms, than they were at the start.
"We weren't at our best with our ball at the start and 299 is probably a few too many on that sort of wicket which slowed up a little bit, we did pretty well to get that close but unfortunately we didn't get the win, " he said.
Benjamin Siegel, professor of pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine notes that it isn't until about age 3 that children can really start to understand and follow rules.
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