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In this example collected from the Internet in 1995: Variations: Origins: Although likely nothing more than a wish-fulfillment fantasy, this legend has appeared as a real news story from time to time: This is an unusual entry for this section in that it's a tale of unintentional revenge. Yet a tale of revenge is because just deserts are served up all around, even though no one planned this particular menu. The tomcatting husband engineers his own death, his cruelty impelling his wife to jump out a window and thereby become a deadly projectile. By contrast, the heartbroken faithful wife is spared the grisly end she'd consigned herself to when her scamp of a spouse ultimately turns out to be good for something after all . . . a landing pad. Sightings: Early in the 1998 film Living Out Loud, Holly Hunter's character daydreams that she's watching a newscast report about her attempted suicide. In that account, she wipes out the errant husband and the new woman in his life. Holly, of course, walks away unscathed.
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