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The only thing that prevented a father’s love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says a father's affection was rescued only by an old photograph of himself as a baby, where he looked just as alarmingly like a murderous fried egg. The joke is that a dreadful-looking infant is forgiven through shared family resemblance.
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