Zing

[lushlush]

Within three years of its initial release, classifying any intense friendship as "totally a Harry-Met-Sally situation" had a recognizable meaning to everyone, regardless of whether or not they'd actually seen the movie. And that meaning remains clear and remarkably consistent: It implies that two platonic acquaintances are refusing to admit that

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[inklingfair]

"What do you suppose he meant by that?"

[lushlush]

That we're all going to die alone, hehe.

[inklingfair]

Since "we live as we dream - alone" (Conrad), I'm not too afraid. :D

[gucky]

I'm sure we're the exception, not the rule, by my husband and I got married 13 years to the day we met. We were "best friends" for most of the time before that. And when he asked me out in college and I said I liked him like a friend, I also lent him my copy of WHEN HARRY MET SALLY.

So Nora Ephron *and I* ruin it for everyone else.

[lushlush]

I always loved that you married your best friend (eventually!) and I even remember it giving me hope a few years back, but I've come to realize that yeah, it seems to be the exception as opposed to the norm.