Typical example of college writing I see

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45. A late friend of mine decided to go to law school at age 50.

He just decided it was something he wanted to do. I don't think he ever practiced law, it was pure intellectual curiosity, and he could afford it, due to Hollywood deciding that one part of his military career was worth completely distorting and making into a film, which truned out to be a blockbuster hit.

Another bit of law trivia I didn't know--a son of one of my great-grandfathers once worked at the same New York law firm for which my younger daughter is a star partner in Germany. This was before he was named to the Appellate Division of the NY State Supreme Court. It was written about him that he "had an intellect clear, formidable and with a fine cutting edge that left no one in doubt of its elegance and power." It would appear that those genes wandered about for a couple of generations and resurfaced with my daughter.