Lena was quiet. She stood there on the balcony, holding Sven's hand, and time seemed to stop. Finally she said. "I will marry on one condition, and one condition alone"

Sven spoke. "And what is that condition?"

"Before I go to bed at night, I open the window that faces the cemetery  and I say "I love you Ollie".
When I get out of bed in the morning I go to the window, face the
cemetery and say again "I love you Ollie!"

Can you live with this?"

Joy filled Sven, and he said "Of course I can live with it. Ollie was a
good man, his memory is a good memory. Lena, you must realize that I too am a good man, and I too love you. Marry me, and you will be forever happy".

So it was that Lena consented to marry Sven.

On their wedding night, before retiring to their bed, Lena wrapped her
night gown about her opened the window, gazed towards the cemetery and cried to the night: " I LOOOVE YOU OLLIE"

She then went to her wedding bed.
The next morning, she arose. She put on a night gown and opened the window that faced the cemetery.

She once again gazed toward the spot that Ollie was buried and said:
"OLLIE... PTHEFFFFFFFFF!"

.. At least that is the way that I heard this story.

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