Minutes before the cremation, the undertaker quietly sat down next to the grieving widow. «How old was your husband?» he asked.
«He was ninety-eight,» she answered softly. «Two years oder than I am.»
«Really?» the undertaker said. «Hardly worth going home, wouldn’t you say?»
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Is it worth it?