A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years.
They had shared everything. They had talked about everything.
They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little
old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had
cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.
For all of these years, he had never thought about the box,
but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor
said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man
took down the shoe box and took it to his wife's
bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should
know what was In the box. When he opened it, he
found two crocheted dolls And a stack of money
totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents.
'When we were to be married,' she said, ' my
grandmother told me the secret of a happy
marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I
ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet
and crochet a doll.'
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight
back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the
box. She had only been angry with him two times
in all those years of living and loving.. He almost
burst with Happiness.
'Honey,' he said, 'that explains the doll, but what
about all of this money? Where did it come from?'
'Oh,' she said, 'that's the money I made from selling
the dolls.'
