TEARS....

A woman awakes during the night to find that her
husband was not in bed. She
goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting
at the kitchen table
with a cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be
in deep thought, just
staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear
from his eye and takes a
sip of his coffee. "What's the matter, dear?" she
whispers as she steps into
the room. "Why are you down here at this time of
night?" The husband looks
up from his coffee, "Do you remember 20 years ago when
we were dating, and
you were only 18?" he asks solemnly. "Yes I do" she
replies.

The husband pauses; the words were not coming easily.
"Do you remember when
your father caught us in the garden?" "Yes! I
remember" said the wife,
lowering herself into a chair beside him. The husband
continued. "Do you
remember when he showed the shotgun in my face and
said, 'Either you marry
my daughter, or I'll send you to jail for 20 years?"

"I remember that too" she replied softly. He wiped
another tear from his
cheek and said, "I would have been released today!"