[Becky]

I do have 2 other stories. Both involve my father who passed away 17 years ago.

Here's the first. The second I will write later as I don't have alot of time now and the second one is long.

When I was 11 years old my father had a month long trip to Europe. Although he would go on business trips, they were usually a day here or there, never like this.

When he got home, he brought lots of gifts for all of us kids and my mom. One gift he gave me was a wooden music box that played "Shall We Dance?" from the musical "The King and I". It is carved with a boy and girl dancing and woodland animals all around watching them dance.

The mechanism is winding up with a pin that you pull out and it plays and if you push the pin in it stops playing.

I still have this music box. It is on my bedroom dresser. Anyway - this music box stopped playing. I had it as a decoration in the baby nursery and it just didn't play anymore. My husband even took the thing apart and sprayed WD-40 on it years before as he felt the mechanism corroded over time.

Well, as I said, my dad died and the day after the funeral I was back at my house (the one we bought when we moved from the rented house) and my husband and I were just sitting around. I was crying because my hub's parents had just sent me a beautiful flower arrangement and suddenly we heard this noise. We started to look around and my husband said that one of the kids must have put on the radio. I listened and immediately said that it was my music box and it WAS (my husband had never heard it play as it was always "broken" since I knew him).

That music box plays to this day.