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Lucas was my gangrene-infected, amputated limb.
— Brooke • One Tree Hill
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker likens a person to a limb so infected it had to be cut off. The metaphor frames the loss as painful but necessary, a diseased part removed to save the rest, and it voices bitterness about how damaging that person became.
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