"All those nights that I _lied_ awake, waiting for you!"

[Wilson Gray]

Line from a sitcom. Apparently, neither the writer nor the actor
noticed anything wrong.

Well, it was bound to happen.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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