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We all need help with our feelings. Otherwise, we bottle them up, and before you know it powerful laxatives are involved.
— Principal Flutie • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The advice begins with a familiar argument for emotional support, then arrives at an unexpectedly bodily consequence. Bottling up feelings leads into a reference to laxatives, making the image of release absurdly literal. The abrupt connection supplies the joke rather than a factual account of treatment.
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