A very elderly couple is having an elegant dinner to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n
The old man leans forward and says softly to his wife, \u201cDear, there is something that I must ask you.<\/p>\n
It has always bothered me that our tenth child never quite looked like the rest of our children.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
But, I must know, did he have a different father?\u201d The wife drops her head, unable to look her husband in the eye, she paused for a moment and then confessed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. Yes he did.\u201d The old man is very shaken, the reality of what his wife was admitting hit him harder than he had expected.<\/p>\n
With a tear in his eye he asks \u201cWho? Who was he? Who was the father?\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Then, finally, she says, \u201cYou.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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