She saw a beautiful banquet table. Sitting all around were her parents and all the other people she had loved and who had died before her. They saw her and began calling greetings to her "Hello! How are you? We've been waiting for you! Good to see you."

When Saint Peter came by, Mary said to him, "This is such a wonderful place! How do I get in?"

"You have to spell a word," Saint Peter told her.

"Which word?" Mary asked.

"Love."

Mary correctly spelled "Love" and Saint Peter welcomed her into Heaven.

About a year later, Saint Peter came to Mary and asked her to watch the Gates of Heaven for him that day.

While Mary was guarding the Gates of Heaven, her husband arrived. "I'm surprised to see you," she said. "How have you been?"

"Oh, I've been doing pretty well since you died," her husband told her. "I married the beautiful young nurse who took care of you while you were ill. And then I won the multi-state lottery.

I sold the little house you and I lived in and bought a huge mansion. And my wife and I traveled all around the world. We were on vacation in Cancun and I went water skiing today. I fell and hit my head, and here I am. What a bummer! How do I get in?"

"You have to spell a word," Mary told him.

"Which word?" her husband asked.

"Czechoslovakia."

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