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Doc Holliday
You know Ed, if I thought we weren’t friends, I just don’t think I could bear it.
— Tombstone · 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker tells Ed that discovering they were not friends would be unbearable. Taken literally, it is an emphatic declaration of attachment, framed through an imagined loss. The carefully phrased sentiment could also carry irony or pressure, depending on how the exchange is delivered.
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