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Kids. Ten seconds of joy. Thirty years of misery.
— True Lies • 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A cynical one-liner reducing parenthood to a lopsided trade. Brief happiness is weighed against decades of hardship, exaggerated for comic bite. The joke plays on relatable exhaustion, landing as dark humor built entirely on that stark, lopsided imbalance.
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