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I wish I was somebody else right now, somebody not… married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinky.
— Wash · Firefly
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Wash wishes he could be someone other than himself in this moment. He specifies what he'd rather not be: married, and hopelessly in love with a woman capable of killing him with ease. The line mixes genuine anxiety with self-deprecating humor about his own marriage.
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