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An elderly Italian man lay dying in his bed. While suffering the agonies
of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of
his favorite Italian anisette sprinkle cookies wafting up the stairs.
Gathering his remaining strength, he lifted himself from the bed.
Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and
with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands, he
crawled downstairs.
With labored breath, he leaned against the door frame, gazing into the
kitchen. Where if not for death's agony, he would have thought himself
already in heaven, for there, spread out upon waxed paper on the kitchen
table were hundreds of his favorite anisette sprinkled cookies.
Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his devoted
Italian wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a
happy man? Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards
the table, landing on his knees in a crumpled posture. His parched lips
parted, the wondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth,
seemingly bringing him back to life.
The aged and withered hand trembled on its way to a cookie at! the edge
of the table, when it was suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife!
"Don't touch!" she said, "They're for the funeral."
of impending death, he suddenly smelled the aroma of
his favorite Italian anisette sprinkle cookies wafting up the stairs.
Gathering his remaining strength, he lifted himself from the bed.
Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom, and
with even greater effort, gripping the railing with both hands, he
crawled downstairs.
With labored breath, he leaned against the door frame, gazing into the
kitchen. Where if not for death's agony, he would have thought himself
already in heaven, for there, spread out upon waxed paper on the kitchen
table were hundreds of his favorite anisette sprinkled cookies.
Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his devoted
Italian wife of sixty years, seeing to it that he left this world a
happy man? Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself towards
the table, landing on his knees in a crumpled posture. His parched lips
parted, the wondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth,
seemingly bringing him back to life.
The aged and withered hand trembled on its way to a cookie at! the edge
of the table, when it was suddenly smacked with a spatula by his wife!
"Don't touch!" she said, "They're for the funeral."
