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A Navy physician in the Pacific received from his fiancee a snapshot taken on a beach and showing two couples smiling contentedly while his girl sat alone at one side, forlorn and lonely.
The accompanying letter explained that this was how she was fretting away the time until he returned.
At first the physician was delighted, displaying it proudly to several fellow officers.
That night, however, after studying it a long time in silence, he turned to his roommate. “John,” he said, “I wonder who took that picture?”
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