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Nine Months Later:
Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob.
They loaded up Jack's minivan and headed north. After
driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible
blizzard. They pulled into a nearby farm and asked
the attractive lady who answered the door if they could
spend the night.
"I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have
this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently
widowed," she explained. "I'm afraid the neighbors
will talk if I let you stay in my house."
"Don't worry," Jack said. "We'll be happy to sleep in
the barn. And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at
first light."
The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to
the barn and settled in for the night. Come morning,
the weather had cleared, and they got on their way.
They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.
About nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter
from an attorney. It took him a few minutes to figure
it out, but he finally determined that it was from the
attractive widow he had met on the ski weekend. He
dropped in on his friend Bob and asked,
"Bob, do you remember that good-looking widow from the
farm we stayed at on our ski holiday up North?"
"Yes, I do."
"Did you happen to get up in the middle of the night,
go up to the house and pay her a visit?"
"Yes," Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out.
"I have to admit that I did."
"And did you happen to use my name instead of telling
her your name?"
Bob's face turned red and he said, "Yeah, sorry,
buddy. I'm afraid I did. Why do you ask?"
"She just died and left me everything."
(And you thought the ending would be different, didn't you?)
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