Up: [[Story]] Created: 2024-04-26 A married couple in their early sixties was out celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant. Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table and said, “For being such an exemplary married couple and for being faithful to each other for al this time, I will grant you each a wish.” “Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband!” said the wife. The fairy waved her magic wand and — poof! — two tickets for the Queen Mary II luxury liner appeared in her hands. Then it was the husband’s turn. He thought for a moment and said, “Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again. I’m sorry, my love, but my wish is to have a wife thirty years younger than me.” The wife and the fairy were deeply disappointed but a wish is a wish … So the fairy waved her magic wand and — poof! — the husband became 92 years old. The moral of the story: “Men who are ungrateful bastards should remember that fairies are female.” > [!User] Noelle Oxenhandler, *The Wishing Year*, p.68-69 > She didn’t write it. Someone sent it to her.