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"There I was, watching last night&amp;#x27;s HIMYM, believing it was just another fun example of the show&amp;#x27;s signature OK-now-show-it-how-it-really-happened technique. (Spoilers ahead.) Then, bam: things took a turn into emo-land. Barney teared up talking about how he&amp;#x27;s got to be in every crazy story or he just doesn&amp;#x27;t know who he is. And Lily--well, Lily&amp;#x27;s run-in with the captain, who dismissed her art tastes because of her kindergarten-teaching career, led to her turning over a whole new pad. (Sorry, I couldn&amp;#x27;t resist.) She bawled to Marshall about having forgotten to chase her dreams--and without hesitation, he told her to go ahead and fix that. So Lily&amp;#x27;s leaving the classroom to buy art for the very rich Captain (guess elephants like the one in that painting really are good luck). The new job settled the worries we&amp;#x27;ve had about Lily since her exhausted-mom breakdown on the roof earlier this season. Which got me thinking: now that we know the show is ending, we&amp;#x27;re all locked in on finding The Mother. (That&amp;#x27;s just fine by me--after all, there was a time this season when Ted Mosby was barely on camera.) But what else do we feel like we need to see happen before the show ends? For my part: I feel like each of the characters needs to have and resolve their own personal Jean Valjean moment (&amp;quot;Who am I?&amp;quot;). Lily went first. No doubt Robin and Barney each grow closer to a freakout with each day being engaged (perhaps one of Robin&amp;#x27;s exes will surface--Don?) I&amp;#x27;m betting Marshall&amp;#x27;s Achilles heel will turn out to have something to do with raising kids in the city--that whole Long Island house thing just seems like a dream sequence now, but you can&amp;#x27;t take the Minnesota out of the boy, and I cannot picture him lugging strollers up and down the subway stairs. Then there&amp;#x27;s little things--what will happen to MacLaren&amp;#x27;s? Should they hit the infamous burger joint one more time? What do you definitely want to see happen on HIMYM before it goes off the air? And what did you think of Lily&amp;#x27;s turnaround last night? Photo: CBS"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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