"It's never too late."
Seventy years after starting her studies, Maryette McFarland from Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was finally able to graduate from university with a degree in English Literature.
"I can hardly believe it, and it's taken me quite a long time," she said.
Maryette had originally started university in Dublin back in the 1960s, but dropped out of her course and got married instead.
Studying online had proved a challenge at times. However, she said her family - including her four children, and grandchildren and great-grandchildren - had been "wonderful".
"I'm very bad online but I had a lot of help from the family," she said, adding that her daughter-in-law taught her how to type.
"I am just so proud of her," Her eldest daughter Shauna Gailey said.
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