Shortly after their wedding in 1934, Josie and Richard received a phone call from a button-hole relative in town named Hattie Chase. Hattie asked if Richard had the truck available and could they come by soon for their wedding gift. Josie hoped that Hattie and her husband, who had no children of their own, wanted to give them one of her antique bureaus or tables. She wished it so hard, she dreamed it at night.
The next day, after a full day of work on the farm, Richard and Josie got into the truck and rode into town, where Hattie presented them with a very pretty green and brown, gold-rimmed plate, which Josie always referred to afterwards as the dish that needed a truck!
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