“70th story”

He was supposed to become a doctor. But of course, this was what his father told him to do.

His father said: “Study hard and become a doctor. Doctors make good money, you’d be able to buy a great house, buy wonderful gifts for your wife, and have a great life.”

He was a little boy so he didn’t know what exactly “study hard to have a great life” meant but he could see in his father’s eyes that it was inordinate.

Eventually, the boy fell in love with their neighbor’s daughter and every night he would stand at his window and look at her.

The boy often wrote letters to the girl explaining that he would become a doctor, buy a house for her along with great gifts. But he never gave her the letters, he just kept them in a box.

One day, when the…