Q. How many wives have you had?
A. I've been married four times.
Q. How does this wife that shot you . . .
. . . fit into the four; was she the first, second, or third?
A. Third.
Q. Third. Why did she do that? . . .
A. She was upset. I don't know why she shot me, but she was upset. . . .
Q. How many bullets did she put into you?
A. One.
Q. Did she ever say she was sorry?
A. We lived together for three years after that.
Q. Why?
A. Well . . . I had just bought a home, just bought a new one, and [I] was putting her through school. And looking at my investment that I had in her, I didn't think I wanted to get rid of her right then, to tell the truth.
(Pamela Buchmeyer (quoting from an unidentified trial transcript), "A Legacy of Laughs," Texas Bar Journal, September 2015)
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