A brass ring hanging from a hook beside a crumpled heart on a string against a slate-blue background.

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Carl

60 years old and still getting crushes on other men's wives. I hope that when I'm your age, I'll be a little bit smarter than that.

— Nobody's Fool

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A younger speaker scolds an older man for still chasing infatuations with other people's spouses at sixty. There's a sting in hoping to be wiser by that age, implying that getting older doesn't automatically make you smarter about the heart.

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