Testimony of Healing February 14, 1983 Issue

Imagine yourself on top of the Empire State Building, enjoying...

TOBIAS A. WEISSMAN

Imagine yourself on top of the Empire State Building, enjoying the view of New York City with your family. One of your children asks for money to buy a souvenir, and you take out a five-dollar bill to give to him. Suddenly a gust of wind takes the bill out of your hand and blows it away, over the protective spikes surrounding the observation deck. Now, I ask you, how likely is it that you will find that bill again? In a fictional story, you very well might, for the writer has full control over his plot. But in real life, so called? Impossible? Or is that impossibility also "so called"?

Something analogous to the preceding anecdote happened to me not long ago.

In 1972 my wife and I received, as a gift from her parents, $10,000 worth of city bearer bonds. I immediately placed the packet of coupons in our safe deposit box at a local bank. Thereafter, every six months I would go to the bank, redeem one coupon, and deposit the money in our savings account. This went on until the bond matured on January 1, 1980, when I redeemed the last of the coupons and made the final deposit. At that time, not having any previous experience in this area of investments, I tore up the receipt the coupons had been attached to and threw it out. Then I forgot the whole thing.

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