When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed a wife with whom to share his fortune.
One evening at an investment meeting he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her natural beauty took his breath away. "I may look like just an ordinary man," he said to her, but in just a few years, my father will die, and I'll inherit $20 million."
Impressed, the woman took his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother. This tale proves that women are so much better at financial planning than men. :-)
Isn't that what Jane Austen said in the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice?
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