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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''How to Make an American Quilt'', the protagonist's dissertation on quilting traditions gets blown away by an aggressive storm. She's pretty cheerful about it, though, because [[The Power of Love|she's learned that love is more important]] than work. Or something.
* Similarly, in ''[[Wonder Boys]]'', Michael Douglas' character feels pretty good about losing the [[Doorstopper|several thousand pages]] of his second novel, probably to indicate that it [[Sophomore Slump|didn't measure up]] to his brilliant first one.
* In the first ''[[Dennis the Menace]]'' movie, Mr. Wilson spent forty years growing a plant that only flowers once for a few seconds. So he invites the neighborhood to the flowering, but Dennis causes a distraction at the crucial instant.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Happened to Em in ''[[Misfile]]''. When, at the beginning, an angel misplaces two years of Emily's life that she'd spent working incredibly hard at school so she could get accepted to Harvard. She'll just have to do it all over again!
* Sarda of ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Helen and Micah first met in ''[[Mac Hall]]'' when he accidentally jumped off a balcony and just barely missed landing on her semester project.
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