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From: ki@linus.UUCP (Kevin Ilsen)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: long joke
Message-ID: <408@linus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 10:00:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: linus.408
Posted: Thu Oct 27 10:00:57 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Oct-83 01:51:37 EDT
Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford MA
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This story concerns a man who, after putting his young son to bed each
night, customarily stood by his boy's door with typical paternal pride
and listened in to his son saying his prayers.

One night, the boy ended his prayers with, ". . . God bless mommy, God
bless daddy, God bless grandmom, and God bless grandpop, who won't be
with us much longer."  The man though this was rather curious, but passed
it off as childish whimsy.  The next day, however, he received a call
from his mother, informing him that his father had passed away early that
morning.

During the next few weeks, he listened particularly closely to his son's
prayers, but noticed nothing unusual.  Finally, one night, the boy closed
his prayers with, ". . . God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless
grandmom, who won't be with us much longer."  Although the shock of the
original incident had worn off during the intervening weeks, he nontheless
phoned his mother to inquire as to her health.  He went to bed only
partially reassured, but was awakened in the night by his sister calling
with the bad news that their mother had died suddenly in the night.

Surely the boy had nothing to do with these tragedies, but the father
had a series of psychological tests done; nothing unusual was uncovered.

About a month later, the boy ended his prayers with, ". . . God bless mommy,
and God bless daddy, who won't be with us much longer."  The man was
panic-stricken, certain that, for whatever reason, he was going to die
during the night.  He resolved to stay awake all night; at least he wouldn't
die in his sleep, and if awake and alert he should be able to prevent any
tragedy.

The next morning, he was tremendously relieved that his vigil had been a
success.  The rest of the family got up just like any normal day, and he
showered, had breakfast, and walked out the door, headed for work.  There,
lying dead on the doorstep, was the milkman.
	
	--Kevin Ilsen
	{allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!ki     	(UUCP)
	linus!ki@mitre-bedford						(MIL)
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	--Kevin Ilsen
	{allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!ki     	(UUCP)
	linus!ki@mitre-bedford						(MIL)