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I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
— Rhett Butler ‧ Gone with the Wind
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker refuses a future spent waiting for gaps between somebody else’s marriages. Between husbands turns those gaps into a recurring condition, while the reference to an entire life gives the complaint its scale. The line draws a limit around waiting, without establishing what happens after it is spoken.
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