An ornate gold frame hangs on a plum wall around a swirling dark storm-cloud image.

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Emo Philips

The toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to kill a loved one just because they're the devil.

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Our interpretation.

The line treats killing a loved one for being the devil as though it were a familiar life difficulty. That impossible generalization produces the dark joke. The ordinary language of hardship collides with a grotesque premise, without offering a literal recommendation or a credible universal experience.

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