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Sonia was a good woman. While shopping one day, she had severe chest pains and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. The doctors immediately recognized the symptoms of a heart attack and began treatment. She had a near death experience, during which she saw G-d and asked if this is the end for her. “No,” she was told. “You have another thirty or so years to live.” Delighted to hear this, upon her recovery she figured that if she is going to live another thirty years, she may as well do something about her looks. Besides getting her hair tinted and contact lenses, she got cosmetic surgery, including a face lift, botox implant, liposuction, and a tummy tuck. But just weeks later, as she was leaving the hospital, tragedy struck. Sonia was struck by a car and killed. When she arrived before G-d, she asked “How could this be? You told me that I had another 30 years. Why didn’t You pull me out of the path of that car?” To which G-d replied: “I didn’t recognize you.”

06/10/2021