Anniversay
A very elderly couple is having an elegant
dinner to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversery. The old man leans
forward and says softly to his wife "Dear, there is something that I must
ask you. It has always bothered me that our tenth child never quite
looked like the rest of our children. Now I want to assure
you that these 75 years have been the most wonderful experience I could
have ever hoped for, and your answer cannot take that all that away.
But,.. I must know, did he have a different father?"
The wife drops her head, unable to look her
husband in the eye, she paused for moment and then confessed. "Yes.
Yes he did."
The old man is very shaken, the reality of
what his wife was admitting hit him harder than he had expected.
With a tear in his eye he asks "Who?..Who was he? Who was the father?"
Again the old woman drops her head, saying
nothing at first as she tried to muster the courage to tell the truth to
her husband.
Then, finally, she says "You".