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Ally

It doesn't matter that I'm not in a relationship with anybody. Sometimes I feel like I'm being unfaithful to love itself.

— Ally McBeal • 1997

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker feels a kind of infidelity despite having no partner to betray. Love itself becomes the imagined recipient of loyalty, making the feeling larger than any particular relationship. The line explores an uneasy gap between being unattached and feeling free of obligations to love.

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