After a long illness, a woman died and arrived at the Gates of
Heaven. While she was waiting for Saint Peter to greet her, she
peeked through the Gates. She saw a beautiful banquet table.
Sitting all around were her parents and all the other people
she had loved and who had died before her. They saw her and
began calling greetings to her: "Hello. How are you? We've
been waiting for you. Good to see you."
When Saint Peter came by, the woman said to him, "This is such
a wonderful place. How do I get in?"
"You have to spell a word," Saint Peter told her.
"Which word?" the woman asked.
"Love."
The woman correctly spelled "l-o-v-e," and Saint Peter welcomed
her into Heaven.
About two years later, Saint Peter came to the woman and asked
her to watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day.
While the woman was guarding the Gates of Heaven, her husband
arrived.
"I'm surprised to see you," the woman said. "How have you been?"
"Oh, I've been doing pretty well since you died," her husband
told her. "I married the beautiful young nurse who took care of
you while you were ill. And then I won the lottery. I sold the
little house you and I lived in and bought a big mansion. And
my wife and I traveled all around the world. We were on
vacation and I went water skiing today. I fell, the ski hit my
head, and here I am. How do I get in?"
"You have to spell a word," the woman told him.
"Which word?" her husband asked.
"Czechoslovakia."
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