Phillip Murray and Wanda Saxton meet in the last scene under the rainy awning, their wrong wife and fiance finally story-lined away, and walk out together into the downpour - we know from the first scene, Christmas eve, that both of them like walking in the rain but don't have anybody who will do it with them - and it's the miracle of the ending. Daniel Handler
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  5. Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
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