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i missed jennifers explaination of her marriage to harry.


i missed the part when jennifer explains her marriage to harry, could someone fill me in.

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She was married to Harry's brother Robert to begin with, but he died and Harry got all noble and insisted Robert would have wanted her to marry him under the circumstances.

But she hated him, moved away and I think she said she changed her name too.

"We're making a film here, not a movie."

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so he didn't do anything to her, his only 'crime' has her not liking him?

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Unless I missed something, yeah. His crime was being too possessive.

"We're making a film here, not a movie."

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She was willing to give herself to him on their wedding night even though she didn't love him because she thought he loved her. But he read his horoscope and based on what it said he wouldn't sleep with her. He left her waiting in their hotel room alone all night with no explanation. She didn't want to live with a man who didn't love her and who only married her out of obligation so she left him. After Arnie was born she moved away and changed her name, but Harry found her after he decided he had certain 'needs' after all and basically threatened her with being forced to perform her 'wifely duty'. So that's why she's glad that he's dead.

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