Very nice story!!.
I'm 66 and look 80. Or used to. I started exercising again two days ago. I'm at 70 now.
If we talk school, my life was the opposite. My family has the notion that, since my father was a genious, I can't be any less. They still insist I'm the smartest of the family of the old generation. My son, TG is a true genious and that has diffused pressure from me.
I went to high school in Mexico. Being the only foreigner amongst 2000 Mexicans.
Needless to say, life was not peachy. But I made it.