DW's niece and nephew outdid themselves at her graduation party. They did a "roast" of her, noting that it only took her 30 years to earn the BA degree, starting from the time she began classes at a community college in 1979. They played some music from the '70's, and read a funny script about what one can do in 30 years....
Pay off a mortgage, one month at a time.
There have been six presidents, most of whom served two terms.
... and so on.
The funniest part was her niece doing a "reenactment" of the graduation, dressed in coke-bottle-bottom glasses, false teeth, and using a walker with the school colors on the handles. They also gave her a hat, T-shirt, and sweat pants from each of the three schools she earned credits from.
We all had a ball, and her diploma is now nicely framed and on the wall here.
It only took so long because she spent so much time helping her brother with a severely sick daughter and some other family issues.