I just couldn’t believe it when I got home from work that night and Annie showed me the telegraman uncle she hadn’t seen in years had died and left her $100,000! I flopped into a kitchen chair and just stared at that telegram. Somebody was playing a joke, I decided. This kind of good fortune out of the blue happened only in the movies. It certainly didn’t happen in real life, and not to people like my beautiful Annie and me.

But it was true, all right, and once I realized that, once I was sure no one was going to come and take it away from us, I started to share my wife’s happiness. We had so many plans for the money, we didn’t know where to start. A new place to live? Of course. A car to replace the wreck that could barely make it to the diner and back? Absolutely. Some nice new clothes for... Read More