[Namron] The Box

[Grimmie]

As a new bride, Aunt Edna moved into the small home on her husband's
ranch in Wyoming. She put a shoebox on a shelf in her closet and asked 
her husband never to touch it.


For fifty years, Uncle Jack left the box alone, until Aunt Edna was old and 
dying. One day, when he was putting their affairs in order, he found the box 
again and thought it might hold something important. Opening it, he found 
two doilies and $82,500 in cash. He took the box to her and asked about 
the contents.


"My mother gave me that box the day we married," Edna explained. "She 
told me to make a doily to help ease my frustrations every time I got mad at 
you."


Uncle Jack was very touched that in 50 years she'd only been mad at him 
twice. "What's the $82,500 for?" he asked.


"Oh, that's the money I made selling the doilies," Edna replied.


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