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"Hilarious"

 

The same dame says my Private Are title is “hilarious,” but she clearly does not really find it funny. She waxes ironic—saying one thing while meaning another. Is she lying? Nope. Her sour expression tells me she doesn’t literally mean what she says. Irony: another trope.

 

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