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One letter, two reactions

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A woman read a letter from her husband and laughed.

She read the same letter again straight away, and cried.

Not a word of it had changed.

Why did she react differently?

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Answer

The first time she was laughing at the jokes and the memories in it.

The second time it struck her that this was the last letter her husband wrote before he died.

Same words, different thing to see.

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