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Originally Posted by rubecube
Okay, how should I have interpreted it?
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I interpreted through the useful lens of pie: married men realize that now the delicious pie has to be shared with two, three, four, or even possibly more, others. He therefore strives to increase the size of the pie, so that the meager portion he is allotted will grow, perhaps even enough to satisfy his appetite for sweetness.
Alas, no matter how he works, the halcyon times when he was able to sit down and uninterruptedly scarf down the entirety of a slightly smaller, but also entirely personal, pie, have gone forever. Still, it's too late now, so he does his best, pretending that he doesn't mind sharing his pie with a pack of squalling ingrates, and he has at least learned the wisdom his own father had fruitlessly tried to install in him, that that he had never understood until placed in the same grim situation: there is no grief like that of a man for his lost pie.