A bundle of old letters tied with a blue ribbon lies on a round tray beneath a dried rose.

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Aaron Altman

Hey, if anything happens to me, you tell every woman I've ever gone out with that I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to re-evaluate me.

— Broadcast News ‧ 1987

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks for every former partner to be told that she was being mentioned at the end. The hoped-for result is a reassessment of their opinion. The request reads as a vain, comic attempt to influence a whole dating history through one carefully tailored final impression.

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