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== Film ==
* Wavey Prowse in ''The Shipping News'' (book by Annie Proulx) and (2001 film). She claims that her disabled son's father was lost at sea, {{spoiler|but ultimately reveals that, after a long string of affairs, he'd left her when she was eight months pregnant and is now living somewhere outside Newfoundland. Instead of admitting what happened, she'd staged his supposedly-fatal shipwreck to save face.}}
* Inverted in ''[[Bounce (film)|Bounce]]'': Gwyneth Paltrow's character is a widow but claims to be divorced because she was sick of people pitying her. Since, in her words, "everyone is divorced these days", they don't pity her as much when she tells that lie. ▼
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== Theatre ==
* Mrs. Arbuthnot of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s play ''A Woman of No Importance''.
▲* Inverted in ''Bounce'': Gwyneth Paltrow's character is a widow but claims to be divorced because she was sick of people pitying her. Since, in her words, "everyone is divorced these days", they don't pity her as much when she tells that lie.
* Another male example: In ''[[The Rainmaker (theatre)|The Rainmaker]]'', File falsely claims to be a widower.
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