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Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery nicer.

Lesson: It’s better to cry in the comfortable back seat of a luxurious Mercedes-Benz than while pedaling a broken bicycle uphill in the rain.

My wife Marilyn’s cousin Manny was a printer and he offered us free wedding invitations as an engagement present. Unfortunately they arrived with my father’s name wrong. When Manny reprinted them, he got Pop’s name right, but he printed the wrong year.

We didn’t want to ask Manny for a third freebie or insult him by taking our business elsewhere. (He kept a gun in a holster strapped to his ankle and I used to refer to him as Mafia Manny although I had no real knowledge that he was in the mob.)

The wedding date was rapidly approaching so my future mother-in-law used a pen to correct the year on each invitation. It wasn’t very elegant—in fact, it looked like shit—but it was definitely a rare collector’s item.

Lesson: Sometimes FREE is not a good price.