First We Laugh

The tears were inappropriate, but we expected that from Johnny. He was a madman. He rolled on the floor when I told him my mother died, laughed even harder when I kicked him in the ribs. Since then, we all knew better than to share any bad news with him. Too bad we could never share a joke with him...once I showed him an old Phil Silvers Show, and he acted like a man who had been told his family died in a fire.

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