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Why didn't I marry you instead of Esteban?
— Zorro, the Gay Blade · 1981
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker turns on regret, asking the person addressed why they didn't marry them rather than a man called Esteban. It reads as a rueful, rhetorical complaint about a choice already made, mixing wistful attraction with a sense of a wrong turn that now can't be undone.
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