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"Listen to me, get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened." -Don Draper, Mad Men, Season 2 Episode 5.



What is the context?


He says it to Peggy, who is distraught and in the hospital, after just giving birth to a son and immediately giving him up for adoption.

I had to look it up too. You are right, the quote doesn't exactly explain itself.


Since no one is responding...a major character gives birth to an illegitimate child fathered by a married co-worker, has a sort of mental breakdown, and her family takes the child away and tries to cover the whole thing up. Don finds her in a hospital and gives her that advice.


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This has to be one the most pretentious comments I've ever read on Hacker News.


I especially appreciate that his TL;DR was a reference to one of the more dense pieces of literary theory that I was ever forced to digest...


One of the great quotes from Mad Men, and it does apply perfectly to this situation.




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