My wife loves gardening.
Unfortunately, she recently hurt her leg so now she's temporarily forced to do her second favorite thing: spend time with me. We were enjoying a hot cup of coffee together in the outside patio one morning, when my elderly father overheard her complain about the small decorative dragonfly statue in her garden.
"It's broken?" my dad asked. "I'll fix it."
One of its wings had broken off, causing it to look like Jim Croce's main character who "looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone" in his song You Don't Mess Around With Jim. My father's solution was to break off the opposing wing to give the poor dragonfly a more aesthetically pleasing look.
My wife leaned her head confidentially closer to mine.
"Don't tell dad I hurt my leg," she whispered.
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