AN ANNIVERSARY OF SORTS
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>      A woman woke in the middle of the night to find her husband
>      missing from their bed.  In the stillness of the house, she
>      could hear a muffled sound downstairs.  She went downstairs
>      and looked all around, still not finding her husband.
>      Listening again, she could definitely hear moaning.  She went
>      down to the basement to find her husband, crouched in the
>      corner facing the wall, crying.  She asked him, "What's wrong
>      with you?"
>
>      He replied, "Remember when your father caught us together,
>      when you were 16?  Remember he said I had a choice: I could
>      either marry you, or be sent away to prison for the next 20
>      years."
>      Baffled, she said, "Yes."
>
>      The husband bawled, "I would have been released from prison
>      today."