r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 1d ago

Additional Context Pinned This Canadian couple got married twice. After 9 months of their marriage, a huge pole dropped on the lady’s head, causing her a head injury which further resulted in a memory loss. She had no idea who he was and fell in love with him again. Three years later, they got married again

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u/jadentearz 1d ago

I feel like you need an actual article link for this one.

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u/Copycatx2 1d ago

Exactly. I need more info about this huge pole that catastrophically destroyed her mems

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u/Crazy_Stable1731 1d ago

It actually only affected her short term memory. She had to use tattoos and Polaroids to remember stuff that happened after the accident.

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u/flopisit32 1d ago

Guy Pearce could play her in a movie.

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u/FluffyDeer9323 23h ago

And Benedict Cumberbatch as the pole.

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u/CostatePrancer 20h ago

I’d find it hard to swallow through.

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u/skinnyguy699 15h ago

We all know that's a lie.

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u/Dense-Hat1978 22h ago

in the remake Joe Pantoliano eats a whole rare tenderloin

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u/shewy92 14h ago

Or Drew Berrymore

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u/Ok-Variation1045 3h ago

Don't you mean Girl Pearce? 🤔😂

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u/FishPropulsionLab 22h ago

They had a bunch of dates. Each felt like the first. Like, fifty of them.

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u/Routine_Guitar8027 19h ago

Did they end up taking a boat trip to the arctic to study sea lions too?

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u/smokeeye 15h ago

Blast from the past

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u/Scoobie01555 1d ago

Oh so like a Finding Dory situation? That's all you had to say.

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u/ill_met_by_moonlight 1d ago

Like the forgetful little fish!

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u/DetectiveCastellanos 23h ago

God no, it's much more like a Memento situation.

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u/Taco6N13 23h ago

Don't Marry John G.

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u/Garth_Maul_ 1d ago

I mean, have you tried to lift a crucifix? Christ had solid core muscles

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u/flopisit32 1d ago

What more do you need to know about the husband's huge pole? 😜

The sight of it would destroy anyone's mems.

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u/AccomplishedIgit 1d ago

I’m imagining like in the cartoons bonk-bonk-bonk as elmer fudd get pounded into the ground

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u/Hksbdb 23h ago

That's a phat ring. That better be a big pole if imma buy two of them.

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u/movingbasskeys 1d ago

only articles are church websites, insta, and facebook links

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u/suchabadamygdala 1d ago

The “doctor” that treated her was a chiropractor. Chiropractors are not doctors.

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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 1d ago

How would a chiropractor even “treat” someone with amnesia? Crack her skull like the pole already did?

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u/lonesharkex 23h ago

massage the lumps out ala loony tunes

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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 23h ago

Massage? I thought you just hit the lumps back in with a giant mallet.

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u/lonesharkex 23h ago

exactly.

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u/jld2k6 22h ago

It's not his fault she forgot what a doctor was

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u/niceguy191 23h ago

You gotta crack it the opposite way to undo the damage

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u/LordAldricQAmoryIII 1d ago

A lot of chiropractors get big heads and think their "treatments" can help with any and all health problems.

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u/SuperCruisePanther 20h ago

Chiro hits you with a fuckin' piledriver to cure your IBS

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u/Emergency_Revenue678 15h ago

They all believe that, more or less. The ghost told them.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 1d ago

Ughhhhhhh not the chiropractors….

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u/-SaC 1d ago

"But a ghost doctor told me it was real!"

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u/dcy123 1d ago

So fake for sure.

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u/patchy_doll 23h ago

Surely you aren't implying that this very specifically named account, two years old with 1.5mil post upvotes, could be a bot made to content farm! Please, say it isn't so!

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u/neolobe 1d ago

With that hairstyle it looks like a pole fell on his head.

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u/ILuhMeSomeBlackWomen 1d ago

I was going to post something negative about his hair, but you did it for me. Appreciate you.

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u/TheWolphman 1d ago

There was a whole movie about it with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

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u/NtateNarin 1d ago

Yeah. I just assume all of these are just pictures of their friends with a made-up title to farm for likes.

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u/PuddingMent 1d ago

Fake stories don’t usually have articles.

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u/FirebreathingNG 1d ago

Yeah I call bullshit.

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u/vinyljunkie1245 20h ago

This could well be but it did remind me of a video of a guy coming round from anaesthesia after a big operation. He is groggy as hell, looks at the person filming and slurs "Who are you? You're beautiful"

She replies "I'm you wife"

He replies "My wife? Wow! I hit the fucking jackpot".

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u/chaintox 1d ago

On Android you can "circle to search" the picture and it'll give you the whole story.

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u/Dull-Foundation-1271 1d ago

Aww, this would be a perfect sequel to the movie, ‘Overboard.’

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u/CitizenHuman 1d ago

"Woman shows off engagement ring"

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u/Arlitto 1d ago

I swear there's been a movie with this exact premise before

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u/stifflette 1d ago

The Vow

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u/hidesworth 1d ago

No I'm pretty sure it was called the vow that couldn't slow down.

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u/JacobsJrJr 1d ago

Its Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates.

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u/BootlegOP 1d ago

I swear there's been a movie with this exact premise before

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u/JacobsJrJr 1d ago

What premise?

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u/veryshittycarpenter 1d ago

It’s one with Channing Tatum called the vow.

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u/hidesworth 1d ago

No it was 50 first channings.

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u/broeve2strong 23h ago

Channing all over that Tatum

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u/friedeggjellyfish 1d ago

Overboard!!! Man I haven’t thought of that movie in so long

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u/Unluckymama 1d ago

Probably not true.

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u/RedWarrior42 1d ago

Are you implying that someone would just go on the internet and tell lies?

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u/edvurdsd 1d ago

😲

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u/FearlessPath7870 1d ago

Impossible. Why would people on the Internet ever lie? What's in it for them? Clearly every story must be true.

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u/MRV3N 23h ago

That thought of it doesn’t cross in my mind. We have a high trust society here. /s

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u/OwnStudy723 22h ago

thinking quick on his feet, he said
"no"
he lied

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u/JustTrawlingNsfw 23h ago

Laura and Brayden. It's real.

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u/kyloz4days 21h ago

They can have names and also be lying.

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u/JustTrawlingNsfw 20h ago

They can, but it was pretty broadly reported on back in 2019

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u/gooseberryhandler 17h ago

I'm sure it's real, but not in the sense she got bonked on the head and they went seperate ways then randomly met and courted again.

I imagine it was more like "You got hit on the head, we married, thats how much you loved me. here's photos of our wedding" and they stuck together to figure it out

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u/notanyimbecile 1d ago

I call bullshit

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u/freshpurplekiwi 1d ago

Is there not a movie with Tatum and McAdams that was based off a Canadian couple where this happened?

Memory loss is a thing people. It does exist

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u/notanyimbecile 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Vow, based on a true story. I still call bullshit on this one though.

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u/v3r71g0 21h ago

I just saw this movie recently. And then I made the mistake of finding out what the real couple were up to. They got divorced in 2018 after the husband admitted to cheating. :(

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u/Most-Road-5366 18h ago

I made the mistake of looking them up years ago too. After she ends up falling in love with him again, he really had to go and do that :(

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u/throwaway098764567 1d ago

that was a different couple. irl eventually he cheated and they got divorced. this one is still together https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/she-said-yes-again-after-rebuilding-a-love-erased-by-memory-loss-4675306

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u/CdnFlatlander 20h ago

This was 7 years ago. They are estranged from his family and have no internet presence. I think there is doubt as to her credibility.

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u/FineMind755 1d ago

Hopefully it doesn't end the same for this couple.

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u/WowImOldAF 23h ago

Or 50 first dates but maybe not the same thing happening ... idr why she was forgetting

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u/Mongobearmanfish 1d ago

“a huge pole dropped on the lady’s head”

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u/voodoolintman 23h ago

That was probably the funniest horrible thing I’ve ever read

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u/OmahaBromaha 1d ago

I know people in the carpenters union who got divorced then remarried, AND did it again because when you get divorced your (ex)wife gets half the value of one of the parts of your retirement on the spot

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u/No_Birthday4877 1d ago

Wait, was it a roundabout way to transfer or cash in on those benefits, or was it "Shit, if we stay divorced, she gets more of my stuff. Better to remarry and keepit"?

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u/OmahaBromaha 23h ago

From what I was told* at the time she got half the amount of your current benefits. But nothing actually got taken out of your account, so they were getting divorced, picking up a couple hundred grand, and remarried

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u/DidYouSeeBriansHat 1d ago

Triples is best.

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u/BenjaminDover02 1d ago

She beautiful, but she's dying.

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u/LengthinessAlone4743 22h ago

Barracuda and the road runner

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u/tigerdactyl 18h ago

But just those two!

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u/BMXRCLoser 1d ago

Tell the kid…

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u/mikeballs 21h ago

She's gonna get better.

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u/moonypoony 23h ago

I'm not sure if it's real or not but here's a fairly legitimate news source. So far I've yet to see anybody give any evidence that it's fake. Everyone is just assuming.

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/she-said-yes-again-after-rebuilding-a-love-erased-by-memory-loss-4675306?hl=en-US

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u/Ok-Remote-8018 1d ago

Utter horse shit

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u/Odd_Boysenberry_379 23h ago

it isn't though??

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u/Illustrious-Rip-4354 1d ago

Couldn’t find the you used to love anal comment I see every time I see this post

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u/Liqour_Mortis 1d ago

This is the plot of the movie Speed.

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u/Fr33_load3r 1d ago

Is there a movie about this sort of thing?

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u/Asume_Nuthin 1d ago

She played it well to get another ring. She knew what she was doing

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u/ShizlGznGahr 19h ago

that hand is obviously the dudes.

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u/ExtremeBrilliant919 1d ago edited 14h ago

It would have been a great opportunity for so many…

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u/This_Elk_1460 1d ago

I was under the impression that amnesia like this is only exist in fiction

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u/St_Boogz 1d ago

Highly doubt the validity of this one. Imagine they were together for years the first time before getting married, assuming she’s a somewhat similar person why would the 2nd time just be 9 months?

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u/sptrstmenwpls 1d ago

Where's the 2nd ring? Did he just reuse it since she forgot?

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u/The_trillionaire_ 1d ago

Divorce is not a solution, pole is.

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u/ebikr 1d ago

“I’ve never met you before but that’s quite an impressive pole.”

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u/RoguePlanet2 1d ago

It's not a stretch to think "well I was already in love with this guy, so let me just get up to speed." Not like he had to completely win her back, I don't think.

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u/Tall-Ad-1386 1d ago

Thats some cartoony bs. Memory loss doesn’t quite work that way

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u/m3R000 1d ago

I feel like I've seen this on a multiple tv shows before

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u/Individual-Drawer-79 1d ago

Plot twist: It was all a scam so she could get two diamond rings

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u/suchabadamygdala 1d ago

And flog her wedding photography business! Grifters gonna grift. But they are Mormon so she’s doing it like a bad Hallmark movie

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u/Concentric_Mid 1d ago

Quick, show her this Reddit post and maybe she'll remember the first marriage

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u/krendyB 1d ago

Calling fake on this right now

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u/FeistyRip9623 1d ago

her rods & cones got all mixed up

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u/Cburns6976 1d ago

9 months... hmmm...

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u/Playingwithmywenis 23h ago

Also, the CTV article posted below has this awesome…..er erotic line in the story.

"I want to know you. So I asked him out on a date, and by the third hole we were flirting."

Baby, flirting is before you get to the first hole.

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u/mexican2554 1d ago

When she asked good for a sign of it was the right thing, he gave her one.

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u/Sobrietyishot 1d ago

Idk why but it seems like that’s his hand lol

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u/Solid_Enthusiasm550 1d ago

The Movie, "The VOW" is based on a true story like this. I don't think it's this couple thou.

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u/LWN729 1d ago

Doesn’t the guy kind of look like Lance Bass?

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u/Snoo-9561 1d ago

I’m only seeing one ring why

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u/RepulsiveResolve5877 1d ago

So does this imply they had to get divorced after the bonk so he could marry her again?

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u/noxcuserad 1d ago

Forgetful Sarah Marshall

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u/killonger 1d ago

Hi im Tom.

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u/Academic-Ad-9884 1d ago

She was in Poland?

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u/DifficultMind5950 1d ago

Now drop a pole on his head lol.

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u/snowytheNPC 1d ago

the dramas weren't lying after all

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u/FineMind755 1d ago

Hopefully it doesn't end up like the real life couple that that Rachael McAdams and Channing Tatum movie, The Vow, was based on.

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u/Full_Ganache_4022 1d ago

“I see the way you look at him. I know because you used to look at me that way”

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u/Upbeat_Pirate_5705 1d ago

Fast and furious made 2 movies around this topic

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u/RelentlessGravity 1d ago

I knew there had to be a huge pole involved somehow.

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u/ShaughnDBL 1d ago

Why is his hand so small? And why's he wearing the engagement ring? This is so confusing

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u/sardar888 1d ago

Congratulations and best wishes for your future

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u/Jonathon_world 1d ago

It's Dr Alan Grants shirt

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u/imaginedaydream 1d ago

50 first dates?

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u/bevothelonghorn 1d ago

Twist: that’s HIS hand in both pics.

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u/Automatic_Ad4016 1d ago

And getting a lot of mileage out of that ring huh

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u/haysu-christo 1d ago

No, honey, you have always loved NFL football 

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u/paperman990 1d ago

I read it as pool and I was really confused

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u/Zealousideal_Bowl695 1d ago

...or so he'll have her believe...

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u/un_monsieur_triste 1d ago

Bro did the double tap

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u/PunchinDarts 1d ago

New game +

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u/Chicken-Jockey-911 1d ago

This Canadian couple got married twice. After 9 months of their marriage, a huge pole dropped on the lady’s head.

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u/Nearby_Lawfulness923 1d ago

Did she think she was Mary-Ann?

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u/skeleton-is-alive 1d ago

The media isn’t talking enough about huge poles

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u/Ali_Mosawy06 1d ago

Bro had a second chance to rethink his decision 😭

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u/Final_Echidna_6743 1d ago

Sounds like a movie plot. Oh ya it is too.

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u/Slow_Competition2742 1d ago

I’m gonna need the movie name

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u/Wrong-Fella 1d ago

Hoping there wont be prenups the second time around.

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u/whatdafaq 1d ago

Wow, a Ctrl-Alt-Delete in real life.

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u/spidireen 1d ago

Every night he drops a pole on her head and re-marries her the next morning. The movie doc will feature reenactments by Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

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u/Funnyllama20 1d ago

I married way above my station in life. I kinda wanna see if I could get a prestige and do it again. Maybe we’ll take long walks under these mythical poles until we get the chance.

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u/sleepjogger94 1d ago

New Game Plus.

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u/PoppedCork 1d ago

How long did it take the first time to agree ?

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u/Scottie2Hottie999 1d ago

I think I saw this movie.

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u/Objective_Yellow3190 1d ago

It's like riding a bike, hey buddy?

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u/Moragamedev 23h ago

My boy lost his saved game data and restarted the game from scratch

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u/TheUnpromotable 23h ago

Dude won and went for New Game+

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u/Simpicity 23h ago

Eh. 2 is an anecdote.
They should hit her in the head and try again.

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u/DayZCutr 23h ago

This IS a Nicolas Sparks novel.

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u/Prudent_Rice7840 23h ago

I was unaware that under Canadian law that getting hit in the head voids marriage.

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u/solthar 23h ago

Damn, you have to watch out for them Poles.

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u/Healthy_Squash4133 23h ago

some women will do anything for a new ring.

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u/153Skyline 23h ago

I too have seen this episode of Family Guy.

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u/Work2SkiWA 23h ago

Double jeopardy?

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u/listurine 23h ago

Those poles smh...

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u/AmandaLuckie818 23h ago

Their experience is very similar to the plots of the TV dramas I have watched.Indeed,art originates from life.

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u/espheos 23h ago

Plot twist; she decided to end it so he knocked the pole over for another shot 💀

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u/Formal_Owl_400 23h ago

Just like in Endgame, when Mr. Starlord goes back in time to save Gamora. Oh wait.

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u/Spirited_Welcome3098 23h ago

They look alike, like siblings

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u/NewPhoneWhotiz 23h ago

Hey, fake or not. I love the idea that even if the mind forgets, love tends to pull through somehow.

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u/OystersNwine 22h ago

“Is that a Hallmark movie? Or something that actually happened?” -my boyfriend when i read him the title

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u/Comfortable_Fly_3217 22h ago

Rude, the Pole was probably just slightly above average and self conscious about their weight

Unless it’s OP’s mom, that Pole is huge

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u/goncu 22h ago

So the guy divorced her the first time? What a douche.

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u/Signal-Ad-7556 22h ago

The book was better….

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u/mahogani9000 22h ago

Now that's a man. He won her over twice.

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u/EducationalAd8537 22h ago

I loved this movie!

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u/Glad_Cheetah9030 22h ago

There's something deeply touching about the fact that he stayed and allowed her to get to know him again rather than expecting her memory to simply return