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This life has been a test. If this had been an actual life, you would have received instructions on where to go and what to do.
— Angela · My So-Called Life
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Angela compares her life so far to a test rather than the real thing. A genuine life, she suggests, would have come with instructions about where to go and what to do. The joke sits in that missing guidance, which nobody actually receives.
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