A Different Father

            A very elderly couple is having an elegant dinner to celebrate their 50^th wedding anniversary.  The old man leans forward and says softly to his wife, “ Dear, there is something that I must ask you.  It has always bothered me that our tenth child never quite looked like the rest of our children.  Now I want to assure you that these 50 years have been the most wonderful experience I could ever hoped for and your answer can not take that all away.  But …., I must know, did he have a different father?”

            The wife dropped her head, unable to look her husband in the eye.  She paused for a moment and the confessed, “  Yes , he did.”

            The old man was very shaken.  The reality of what his wife was admitting hit him harder than he had expected.  With a tear in his eye, he asked, “ Who?  Who was he?  Who was the father?”

            Again the old woman drops her head, saying nothing at first as she tried to muster the courage to tell him the truth.  Then, finally she said, “ You.”