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* LoveMakesYouDumb: Gran's reason for not immediately informing her future husband that [[FeedTheMole she'd been compromised]] was that the German officer that told her to her face that they knew what she was was that [[EvilIsSexy he was a good-looking morally ambiguous figure.]]

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* LoveMakesYouDumb: Gran's reason for not immediately informing her future husband that [[FeedTheMole she'd been compromised]] was that the German officer that told her to her face that they knew what she was was that [[EvilIsSexy he was a good-looking morally ambiguous figure.]]

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* FromACertainPointOfView:
---> '''Gran:''' I didn't say that was how I met and fell in love with your dad. I said that was how I met and fell in love with [[LukeIAmYourFather your father]].


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---> '''Gran:''' I didn't say that was how I met and fell in love with your dad. I said that was how I met and fell in love with [[LukeIAmYourFather your father]].
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The comic strip ''[[https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane 9 Chickweed Lane]]'' was started by Brooke [=McEldowney=] in 1993. Originally it was a gag-a-day strip about three generations of women in the Burber family: biology professor Juliette Burber; her teenage daughter, Edda; and her mother, Edna O'Malley, whom everyone calls Gran. It gradually turned into a platform for the creator to express his views on culture, politics, religion and gender relations. Since 20-year-old Edda seems to have been promoted to being the central character, it also allowed [=McEldowney=] to indulge in his love of odd camera angles, [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness polysyllabic words]], and female legs. In 2021, it courted controversy by launching a story in which its principal gay character, Seth Appleby, casually set aside his boyfriend to begin a torrid affair with a homophobic female colleague, a storyline which ran during Pride month; in 2022, the strip was banned from the LA Times for using anti-Asian slurs in a (poorly researched) Second World War storyline.

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The comic strip ''[[https://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane 9 Chickweed Lane]]'' was started by Brooke [=McEldowney=] in 1993. Originally it was a gag-a-day strip about three generations of women in the Burber family: biology professor Juliette Burber; her teenage daughter, Edda; and her mother, Edna O'Malley, whom everyone calls Gran. It gradually turned into a platform for the creator to express his views on culture, politics, religion and gender relations. Since 20-year-old Edda seems to have been promoted to being the central character, it also allowed [=McEldowney=] to indulge in his love of odd camera angles, [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness polysyllabic words]], and female legs. In 2021, it courted controversy by launching a story in which its principal gay character, Seth Appleby, casually set aside his boyfriend to begin a torrid affair with a homophobic female colleague, a storyline which ran during Pride month; in 2022, at the end of that year, the strip was banned from the LA Times for using anti-Asian slurs in a (poorly researched) Second World War storyline.
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* LoveMakesYouStupid: Gran's reason for not immediately informing her future husband that [[FeedTheMole she'd been compromised]] was that the German officer that told her to her face that they knew what she was was that [[EvilIsSexy he was a good-looking morally ambiguous figure.]]

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* LoveMakesYouStupid: LoveMakesYouDumb: Gran's reason for not immediately informing her future husband that [[FeedTheMole she'd been compromised]] was that the German officer that told her to her face that they knew what she was was that [[EvilIsSexy he was a good-looking morally ambiguous figure.]]

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Edda imagining [[StraightGay Seth's]] [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday serial dating phase]]. Seth is less-than-amused that his past anguish is his roommate's (and now her mother's) {{fetish}} fuel.
* DecemberDecemberRomance: Gran/Keisel. Gran/Thorax before that.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Edda imagining [[StraightGay Seth's]] [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday serial dating phase]]. Seth is less-than-amused that his past anguish is his roommate's (and now her mother's) {{fetish}} fuel.
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%%* DecemberDecemberRomance: Gran/Keisel. Gran/Thorax before that.

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* TriangRelations:
** Edna, Bill, and Kiesl in the first World War II flashback arc.
** It would've been Edna, Thorax and Kiesel (Thorax was Edna's current boyfriend), but Thorax [[KnowWhenToFoldEm left]] as soon as he saw [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Kiesel and Edna together]].
** Edda, Amos, and Mary, a friend of Edda's whom Amos had a major crush on in high school. When Mary visits them in college, Edda frets that Amos will remember his crush; fortunately Amos doesn't remember her (or at least has enough sense to claim that in front of [[ClingyJealousGirl Edda]]) and they pretty much spend the whole visit making out in front of her.
** Edda, Amos, and ''Seth'': Edda's been in love with Amos all her life (and vise-versa) but she basically reveals that if Seth was straight she'd leave Amos for him in a heartbeat while Seth seems to fight the urge to make Edda actually pregnant. Oh, and Seth blurts out that he'd marry Amos in a heartbeat too!
** LoveDodecahedron (now retired): Edda, Amos, Isabel, Burkhardt, and Janice. Violist Burkhardt Kriegl was first introduced as the boyfriend of Edda's fellow ballerina Janice; he later focused his attentions on Edda, who was not dating Amos van Hoesen at the time, leaving him "fair game" for his accompanist, pianist Isabel Florin. This was later resolved by [[PairTheSpares pairing Isabel with Burkhardt]] and allowing Janice to pull a ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.
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** A (belated?) Mother's day strip had Edda [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness eloquently]] thanking her mother for passing down her good looks (and [[GagBoobs "Charlies"]], which shouldn't really matter to a ballerina); Gran chimes in that she had a hand in those genes too.

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** A (belated?) Mother's day strip had Edda [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness eloquently]] thanking her mother for passing down her good looks (and [[GagBoobs "Charlies"]], "Charlies", which shouldn't really matter to a ballerina); Gran chimes in that she had a hand in those genes too.
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** LoveDodecahedron (now retired): Edda, Amos, Isabel, Burkhardt, and Janice. Violist Burkhardt Kriegl was first introduced as the boyfriend of Edda's fellow ballerina Janice; he later focused his attentions on Edda, who was not dating Amos van Hoesen at the time, leaving him "fair game" for his accompanist, pianist Isabel Florin. This was later resolved by [[PairTheSpares pairing Isabel with Burkhardt]] and allowing Janice to pull a BrotherChuck.

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** LoveDodecahedron (now retired): Edda, Amos, Isabel, Burkhardt, and Janice. Violist Burkhardt Kriegl was first introduced as the boyfriend of Edda's fellow ballerina Janice; he later focused his attentions on Edda, who was not dating Amos van Hoesen at the time, leaving him "fair game" for his accompanist, pianist Isabel Florin. This was later resolved by [[PairTheSpares pairing Isabel with Burkhardt]] and allowing Janice to pull a BrotherChuck.ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.

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