I hate to go into Buffy/Angel mode but Charisma Carpenter is pushing 40.
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She's only 35, maybe to you young whipper-snappers that's old, but to someone already in their 30s, pushing 40 means 38 or 39.
Also, I'd hate to think this guys was decades in the future boring his kids with stores of what happened for months to years before he actually met their mother.