After
a long illness, a woman died and arrived at the Gates of Heaven.
While she was waiting for Saint Peter to greet her, she peeked through
the Gates. She saw a beautiful banquet table. Sitting all around
were her parents and all the other people she had loved and who
had died before her. They saw her and began calling greetings to
her -- "Hello" "How are you! We've been waiting for
you!" "Good to see you."
When
Saint Peter came by, the woman said to him, "This is such a
wonderful place! How do I get in?"
"You
have to spell a word," Saint Peter told her.
"Which
word?" the woman asked.
"Love."
The
woman correctly spelled "Love" and Saint Peter welcomed
her into Heaven.
About
six months later, Saint Peter came to the woman and asked her to
watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day. While the woman was
guarding the Gates of Heaven, her husband arrived.
"I'm
surprised to see you," the woman said. "How have you been?"
"Oh,
I've been doing pretty well since you died," her husband told
her. "I married the beautiful young nurse who took care of
you while you were ill. And then I won the lottery. I sold the little
house you and I lived in and bought a big mansion. And my wife and
I traveled all around the world. We were on vacation and I went
water skiing today. I fell, the ski hit my head, and here I am.
How do I get in?"
"You
have to spell a word," the woman told him.
"Which
word?" her husband asked.
"Czechoslovakia."
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