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Age is not just a number

KENNETH is an adjunct lecturer for a higher institute of learning in Australia. Before turning 41, he had obtained his master's and PhD in information technology. His wife Ethel, a bachelor's degree holder in psychology, is two years his junior. Both are proficient in English and have been working for 8 to 10 years.

They have two minor children 10 and 12 years of age. Ethel has second-degree cousins in Quebec. Kenneth has a sister in Brisbane, Queensland.