Maybe I'm filledwith the milk of human kindness, or perhaps I have a soft spot for supermodels--I'm a gay man, so I have at least one soft spot for supermodels--but I actually believe that it's possible for a beautiful, young woman to fall in love with an obscenely wealthy older man.
When Tom Waits sings "the well is full of pennies, " that has a lot more staying power than "they've made a lot of wishes, " or "it was a life filledwith many hopes, " which I'm assuming is what he meant.