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My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
— Winston Churchill
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A dry joke about how a shared morning meal could nearly sink a marriage. The humour comes from the huge word 'wrecked' being applied to something as small as eggs and toast, suggesting two people can love each other yet still need breakfast apart.
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