kahani ghar ghar ki

[Nikhil Dubal]

> A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in
bed.
> She goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the

> kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him.He appears to be in

> deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a

> tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
>
> "What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room.

> "Why are you down here at this time of night?"
>
> The husband looks up from his coffee, "Do you remember 20 years ago

> when we were dating, and you were only 18?" he asks solemnly. "Yes I

> do" she replies.
>
> The husband pauses; the words were not coming easily. "Do you

> remember when your father caught us in the garden?"
>
> "Yes, I remember" said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside

> him.
>
> The husband continued.. "Do you remember when he showed the shotgun

> in my
> face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I'll send you to jail
> for
> 20 years?"
>
> "I remember that too" she replied softly.
>
> He wiped another tear from his cheek and said, "I would have been

> released today!"

-Nik