At age of 42:
1. Tony is still a cab driver, worked hard enough and achieved what he expected as a low class was able to do and reached his limitation.
2. Suzy: she has been living quite happy with 3 kids since getting married and enjoys her life as a rich people, the only regret thing for her is that she wasted her years from 14 to 21, but she still has had one of the best life compared with other girls. Money really gave her privilege... she was really the stupid girl when she was 14 and 21, I guess she could get worse without money.
3. Symon: divorced at age 35 and remarried at age 42, seems quite happy with his life. (father of 6 kids).
4. Bruce: went to Bangladesh to work as a teacher, married at age 41, he realized that he might not have kid as his life already half way through, but seems quite happy with his wife and new stage of life.
5/6/7: Jackie/Lynn/Sue: they used to say that they had a lot of choices when they are 21, but acknowledged the choices for them were very limited at age of 35. Lynn and Jackie got married at age 19, Lynn already has grandchild, her personal life is stable and joyful, but Jackie is very unlucky, divorced at age 35 with a baby son, remarried with two more sons and split with husband. she has to live with her mother in law help financially, further more, she suffered with arthritis, really a miserable life.
Sue was divorced when her two kids were very small, her parent helped her with her children and they got best they could with their life and she tried her best to enjoy her life, very optimistic.
8. Nick: a farmer son, 14 in boarding school,21 in Oxford, then moved to USA, now a professor, has a 8 year old son, quite successful in term of career.
9. Paul: lives a normal life in Melbourne, seems quite happy.
10/11/12. John and Charles preferred not to take part this programme: Charles was a producer of BBC documentary and editor of science documentary in channel 4. Andrew is very successful in his law firm, he thought that good education is the only thing you can give your children, which can not be taken away no matter what happened.
13.Neil. changed dramatically,he used to be a quite happy boy with happy life, but didn't go to Oxford as he expected and went to a normal university and dropped out shortly, at age of 28, became homeless, at age of 35, he was asked about sanity, going mad etc. seemed no way out, but at age 42, he moved back to London and became councilor member, he and Bruce became friend and Bruce kept a spare bed for him in his home, he attended Bruce wedding, dressed up when to be interviewed, looks good and looking to the future, that's a good ending for him.
At the end of it, all were asked about social class, is Britain is a class driven society, the answer is half half, but it's getting less and less important.
They also were asked about taking part this programme, the answers were positive for most of them, this programme helped them to record their life.
Peter was missed out in this episode.
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