I Sat Alone Waiting for My Kids on My 60th Birthday Then a Police Officer Arrived With Unexpected News

of which made no particular sense out of context but which made everyone laugh anyway, the way stories do when the people hearing them are already primed for laughter, when the relief of the evening has loosened something in the room and everything that might have been funny under any circumstances becomes funnier still.

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