There is a reason that most couples today do not have a significant age difference. Consider that over the last one hundred years, the average age difference between married couples is 3.5 years.
The Colorado River flows from the Continental Divide in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park into the Gulf of California between the Baja California peninsula and mainland Mexico. Here, Snowmass Mountain looms above the Roaring Fork River, a tributary of the Colorado. Peter McBride.
The Colorado never came anywhere close to the Gulf of Mexico. Before the agribusiness wiped it out, it used to flow into the body known as either the Gulf of California or the Sea of Cortez, and some water from the river actually does reach the sea in periods of extremely high rainfall.