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 asks as she enters the room, ‘why are you down here this late?’ ‘It’s the 20th anniversary of the day we met,’ the husband says, looking up from his coffee. She can’t believe he remembered and begins to cry. ‘Do you remember 20 years ago when we started dating, I was 18 and you were only 16,’ the husband continues solemnly.

The wife is moved to tears once more. ‘Yes, I do,’ she says. The husband takes a breather. The words were difficult to come by. ‘Do you recall when your father discovered us in the back seat of my car?’ ‘Yes, I remember,’ the wife said as she lowered herself into the chair beside him.

The husband went on. ‘Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, ‘Either marry my daughter or I will send you to prison for 20 years?’ she replied softly. “I would have gotten out today,” he said, wiping another tear from his cheek.