Nope - looks like you've got it. To clear up your initial confusion, when they say "can't arrange to have the foreign key point back to all three tables", think of it as "can't arrange to have *one single* foreign key point back to all three tables". Of course you can do it with three foreign keys, but as you now understand, that isn't the point of polymorphic associations.
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