A woman awakens in the middle of the night to discover that her spouse is not in bed. She changes into her robe and heads downstairs to seek for him. She discovers him at the kitchen table, sipping a steaming cup of coffee. He appears to be lost in contemplation, staring at the wall. She observes as he wipes a tear from his eye and sips his coffee!

‘What’s the problem, dear?’ ‘Why are you down here this late?’ she inquires as she enters the room. ‘It’s the 20th anniversary of the day we met,’ the husband adds as he raises his cup of coffee. She can’t believe he remembers and starts crying. ‘Do you remember when we started dating 20 years ago, I was 18 and you were just 16,’ the spouse says seriously.

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.