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What you have to understand is, four days ago he was only my brother in name. And this morning we had pancakes.
— Rain Man · 1988
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker asks to be understood: until four days ago he was a brother only nominally, and now they have shared pancakes at breakfast. The contrast between a purely formal bond and an ordinary domestic morning suggests a relationship that has changed remarkably fast.
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