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Even outside the joke template, "I like my <plural noun> ..." is a statement purely about preferences, not about actually having multiple <nouns> concurrently. And "my" in English is not purely about ownership, but about relations, ownership being just one specific and quite common relation. (Consider "my school", "my employer", or "my friend").