75th wedding anniversary

A very elderly couple is having an elegant dinner

to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary.


The old man leans forward and says softly

to his wife, “Dear, there is something that I

must ask you. It has always bothered me that our

tenth child never quite looked like the rest of our

children. Now I want to assure you that these 75 years

have been the most wonderful experience I could

have ever hoped for, and your answer cannot take that

all that away. But, I must know, did he have

a different father?”
The wife drops her head, unable to look her husband

in the eye, she paused for a moment and then

confessed. “Yes. Yes he did.”


The old man is very shaken, the reality of what his

wife was admitting hit him harder than he had expected.

With a tear in his eye he asks “Who? Who was he?

Who was the father?”


Again the old woman drops her head, saying nothing

at first as she tried to muster the courage to tell

the truth to her husband.


Then, finally, she says, “You.”