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When my sister, a decided redhead — decided about everything — married a tall and taciturn ensign, everyone said he would soon be the world’s most henpecked husband.  Instead, she behaved from the start like a child the week before Christmas.  I asked how it happened.

My sister blushed.  “The first thing I saw after he carried me across the threshold was a pair of his trousers thrown over a chair.  I started to put them away, but he stopped me.  ‘Put them on,’ he said.  “ ‘But, darling, what for?’ I protested.  He just smiled.  So, to find out what he had in mind, I put them on.  They were about six sizes too big.  ‘Do they fit?’ he asked.  ‘Oh, sweetheart, you know they don’t,’ I answered.

He pulled me to his knees and said, his face perfectly dead-pan, ‘Then never forget who wears the pants in this family!’ “

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