A wooden hairbrush next to a neat coral ribbon braid with one hairpin lying unused.

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Grace Adler

In a perfect world where my hair is straight and so are you.

— Will & Grace  ·  1998

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker imagines a perfect world where both their hair and the person addressed are straight. The repeated word shifts from hairstyle to sexuality, turning two wishes into one joke. Its wistful humour links a change in appearance with a desired change in romantic possibility.

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