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I'm in love with a girl, and I'm going to help hang her father.
— Foreign Correspondent · 1940
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker states two things that pull sharply apart: love for a girl and a willingness to help hang her father. Setting the tender and the grim side by side in one sentence exposes a painful conflict, with affection colliding against an act that will hurt the person loved.
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