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Maybe I won’t get married, you know? Maybe I’ll do one of those “Eat, Pray, Love” things. Ugh, no, I don’t want to pray. Forget it, I’ll just die alone.
— Mindy Lahiri ‧ The Mindy Project
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker considers an alternative to marriage, then abandons it as soon as praying enters the picture. The sudden leap from a possible plan to dying alone supplies the joke. A small objection becomes a comically sweeping verdict on the future.
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