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Well, one thing's for sure: we're all going to be a lot thinner!

— Han Solo • Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

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The speaker finds one certainty: everyone will be much thinner. The prediction turns an unspecified situation into a comment about its effect on their bodies. Read as a grim joke, it offers a conspicuously limited piece of reassurance without explaining what has put them there.

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