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    1 month ago

    “Yesterday I married, my brother!”

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      1 month ago

      But that would change the intended meaning, wouldn’t it? The one who wrote that was the person who married those other two people together. Ones of those two people was his brother if I understood correctly. He is not calling the reader “my brother”.

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        Exactly.
        Hence my second post after I also finally understood this. :-)