I think it can totally work. I think what Martian said about the age gap sometimes being the source of different life stages is true. But that also happens when people are the same age. That is all timing.
And seamaiden, 8 years? That is nothing. You should only remember it when you want to feel turned on by the thought that he is younger. That is the only use of that! 
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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