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betsuni

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10. Every time I watch it I get mad that George's wife Mary ends up unmarried ...

Reply to maxrandb (Original post)

Mon Dec 25, 2017, 10:43 AM

Dec 2017

if he hadn't been born. Obviously she would've married Sam Wainwright and had a closet-full of fur coats and a nice jewelry collection in her fabulous New York apartment, been able to take care of her mother, but she'd be miserable because Sam is a cad. Instead of a make-up-free plain librarian Mary, we'd see Manhattan Mary taking swigs of brandy at her dressing table after Sam calls to say he won't be coming home because he has "business" in Chicago, again.

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