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The Lady and the Pina Colada

Chekhov's "The Lady and the Dog" reminds me of "The Pina Colada Song", and I will tell you why. In "The Pina Coloda Song" (which will now be known as PCS), both people in a relationship decide that they are unhappy. Rather than voice this discontentment or break up with each other, they simply decide to cheat on each other. Then one publishes an ad in the newspaper to get a date (which is weird enough in itself) and the other responds to it. When they realize that it was each other all along, they laugh about it and revive their relationship so they don't have to face the fact that they both tried to cheat on each other. In "The Lady and the Dog" (which will now be known as LAD), two people in different relationships decide to cheat on their significant others with each other. After initially agreeing it would be short term, they decide to try to make the relationship work. PCS and LAD both have the ethical issue of cheating and hiding it, and I really don't know which situation I think is worse. At least the people in PCS don't run away to Russia to cheat on each other. That'd be even more awkward as they likely lived with each other and would've wasted a lot of money. I don't know if anyone else will see this comparison, but it hit me out of nowhere for some reason and I felt the need to share. I hope you enjoyed.

Additionally, the Pomeranian is the pina colada. There, I said it.

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