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tuhin on March 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sequoia gives photo-sharing startup more money tha...

Why the downvote?

It is redundant and I just dropped a note of English usage. If one has to emphasis, it would be "Even my wife...".

Just like saying Round circle or Straight line!

Or is the point of commenting only when you add hacking info?

gjm11 on March 24, 2011 [–]

There's nothing wrong with "my own wife". (A Google Books search quickly turns up "my own wife", "my own child", "my own father", and "my own mother" in Dickens, for instance.)

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