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Three Wishes


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Three men who were marooned on a desert island. As the days slowly went by, they dreamed of what it would be like to be at home with their friends and family, to be back at their jobs doing the things they loved. One day one of the men found a bottle that contained a genie. He opened the bottle and the genie announced that he would grant each of them one wish. One of the men said, "Boy, I want to be back in Seattle with my wife and kids." POOF&md;he was gone. The second man immediately said, "I want to be back in Portland with my fiancé" and again in a flash he was gone. The third man was left all alone sitting on the sandy beach. He said, "Boy, it really is lonely with my friends gone. I sure wish they were back here with me again. And POOF&md;