re: Annual reminder that Mary Bailey is the greatest wife in history

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George Bailey had big plans and was ready to leave town and take on the world. Mary was an anchor who only wanted George and the small town life. She says it twice in the movie, once at the drug store when she was about 10 and she whispers in George's deaf ear she would love him forever. The second time was when she threw a rock and broke the window of the house, her wish was granted that she would marry George and live in that house, knowing full well he wanted to leave town and see the world.

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She would have followed him anywhere. George was the one who kept getting pulled back to Bedford Falls for one reason or another out of a sense of duty.

Mary was just the bright spot that made it all worthwhile, the one who actually liked the town and knew the meaning and value of living among friends.

If there's a villain in the film aside from Potter it's Uncle Billy. He was nothing more than a nepotistic empty salary who despite co-founding the B&L couldn't be trusted to run it after Peter died and had to instead be wetnursed by his twentysomething nephew. He's the one who freaked out and closed up during the bank run, and who lost the $8,000 that led to George's breakdown.