A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband is not in bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot 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, 'It's the 20th Anniversary of the day we met'.
She can't believe he has remembered and starts to tear up.
The husband continues, 'Do you remember 20 years ago when we started dating, I was 18 and you were only 16,' he says solemnly.
Once again, the wife is touched to tears. 'Yes, I do' she replies.
The husband pauses The words were not coming easily. 'Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car'
'Yes, I remember' said the wife, lowering herself into the chair beside him.
The husband continued. 'Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, "Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to prison for 20 years'
'I remember that, too' she replied softly.
He wiped another tear from his cheek and said "I would have gotten out today."
A woman adopted a 12-year-old shelter dog who had been overlooked for eight months, and within hours of coming home he planted himself in her bedroom doorway and refused to let her through. She thought he was being aggressive and called for help - but firefighters discovered a massive gas leak hidden behind her bedroom wall so severe that a single flipped light switch could have leveled the entire house. The dog had smelled the danger the moment he walked in and used his body as a barrier to keep her alive. For eight months nobody gave him a second look, and on the very first night he proved exactly why he was worth saving.