The Garage Sale Treasure

At a garage sale in June, I found a box of old vinyl records for ten dollars. Inside was a record with a handwritten label: "Mom and Dad's Wedding Song, 1962." It was a 45 of "Can't Help Falling in Love."

I asked the man running the sale about it. He was clearing out his parents' house. When he saw it, he stopped. He hadn't known it was there. He said his parents used to dance to it in the kitchen every anniversary.

I gave it back to him, of course. He tried to pay me. I wouldn't let him. He insisted I take the rest of the box for free.

A week later, I got a text from him with a video: his whole family, three generations, dancing in a living room to that record on an old player. The caption said: "For Mom and Dad. Thank you, stranger." I watch it every once in a while, just to smile.