There was once a
couple who had been married for 60 years. Throughout their life they had shared
everything. They loved each other deeply. They had not kept any secrets from
one another, except for a small shoebox that the wife kept in the top shelf of
her closet. When they got married, she put the box there and asked her husband
never to look inside of it and never to ask questions about its contents.
For
60 years the man honored his wife's request. In fact, he forgot about the box
until a day when his wife grew gravely ill, and the doctors were sure she had
no way of recovering. So the man, putting his wife's affairs into order,
remembered that box in the top of her closet, got it down, and brought it to
her at the hospital. He asked her if perhaps now they might be able to open it.
She agreed. They opened the box, and inside were two crocheted dolls and a roll
of money that totaled $95,000. The man was astonished.
The woman told
her husband that the day before they were married, her grandmother told her
that if she and her husband were ever to get into an argument with one another,
they should work hard to reconcile, and if they were unable to reconcile, she
should simply keep her mouth shut and crochet a doll. The man was touched by
this, because there were only two crocheted dolls in the box.
He was amazed
that over 60 years of marriage, they apparently had had only two conversations
that they were unable to reconcile. Tears came to his eyes, and he grew even
more deeply in love with this woman. Then he asked about the roll of money.
"What's with this?" he asked. His wife said, "Well, every time I
crocheted a doll, I sold it to a local craft fair for five dollars."
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