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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Fumbling through a cut glass vase''<br />
''Passing lipstick, cotton spools''<br />
''Burning jealous pictures of marriages of friends''|'''Jellyfish''', ''"The Glutton of Sympathy"''}}
 
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A variation of [[Defenestrate and Berate]].
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== Anime and Manga ==
* Two examples from ''[[Popotan (Anime)|Popotan]]'', neither of which follow a romance gone sour, but they stay true to the general idea of the trope:
** {{spoiler|After she learns of Konami's death, Mai tries to burn the portrait she received from her in order to forget about her, but she is stopped by Mea}}.
** {{spoiler|In the same episode, it's revealed that Mea's previous household did the same to their house when they found that Shizuku was not able to give them a good explanation for their travels; she could not prevent this one}}.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Aeneid (Literature)|The Aeneid]]'', Dido and her sister set fire to Aeneas's things after he abandons Dido.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* In an episode of ''[[Friends (TV)|Friends]]'', Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel burn mementos of their exes when they find themselves all single on Valentine's Day and decide to do something to "cleanse" their bad luck. The firemen who attend when it inevitably gets out of control tell them that Valentine's Day is one of their busiest nights of the year, for exactly that reason.
* In ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' Season 5, Tony throws the letter of his [[Love Interest]] into a bonfire after the relationship went way, way, way south due to him [[Becoming the Mask]].
 
 
== Music ==
* The [[Taylor Swift]] song "Picture to Burn" is about [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|burning up pictures of her ex.]]
* The [[Green Day]] song "Whatshername" is about the singer reminiscing about an old girlfriend whose name he can't remember. In one line, he mentions that he "made a point to burn all of the photographs."
* Implied in [[Miranda Lambert]]'s "Kerosene".
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