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 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 L-O-V-E and Saint Peter welcomed her into
Heaven.
About three years 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 travelled 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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