A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in
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> their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She
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> finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee.
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> He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches
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> as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
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> "What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room."Why
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> are you down here at this time of night?"
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> The husband looks up from his coffee. "Do you remember twenty years ago
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> when we were dating, and you were only 16?" he asks solemnly.
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> "Yes, I do," she replies. .
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> The husband paused. The words were not coming easily. "Do you remember
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> when your father caught us in the back seat of my car
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> "Yes, I remember" said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside
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> him.
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> The husband continued. "Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in
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> my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to
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> jail for twenty years?"
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> "I remember that, too" she replied softly.
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> He wiped another tear from his cheek and said . . "Laya na sana ako
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> ngayon."