A man
and woman had been married for more
than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked
about
everything. They had kept no
secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoe box
in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to
open or ask her about.
For all of these years, he had never
thought about the box, but one
day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would
not recover. In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old
man
took down the shoe box and took it to his wife's bedside.
She agreed that it was time that he
should know what was in the box.
When he opened it, he found two
crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $25,000. He asked
her about the contents.
"When we were to be married," she said,
"my grandmother told me the
secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that
if I
ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll."
The little old man was so moved, he had
to fight back the tears. Only two
precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him
two
times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst
with
happiness.
"Honey," he said, "that explains the
dolls, but what about all
of this money? Where did it come from?"
"Oh," she said, "that's the money I
made from selling the dolls."
