«You and your husband don’t seem to have an awful lot in common,» said the new tenant’s neighbor. «Why on earth did you get married?»
«I suppose it was the old business of ‘opposites attract’,» was the reply. «He wasn’t pregnant and I was.»
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Opposites attract