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Source: "Three Blind Mice", a movie (timestamp: 14m07s).
Abigail has taken a break from her studies at college because she's reliant on drugs, but that isn't helping her much. She's trying to conceal from her parents that she's still taking them. The following conversation takes place between her parents:
Father: "Do you think she's still on them, or...?"
Mother: "Keith, I don't know. I know nothing about class A drugs. The hardest drug I ever took was an epidural when I was having Madden to bear."
I wonder why she used the past tense "took" here. Does she mean that an epidural is the hardest drug she's ever taken in her life, and that she took it when she was having Madden to bear? If not, how should what she said be interpreted?
Abigail has taken a break from her studies at college because she's reliant on drugs, but that isn't helping her much. She's trying to conceal from her parents that she's still taking them. The following conversation takes place between her parents:
Father: "Do you think she's still on them, or...?"
Mother: "Keith, I don't know. I know nothing about class A drugs. The hardest drug I ever took was an epidural when I was having Madden to bear."
I wonder why she used the past tense "took" here. Does she mean that an epidural is the hardest drug she's ever taken in her life, and that she took it when she was having Madden to bear? If not, how should what she said be interpreted?
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