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How I met your mother is a misleading title, which isn't new, this show very often played with viewers perception. It was not about meeting Tracy. It was about becoming the man that can spend a life with her. "If I didn't went thru hell to get there, the lesson woudn't be so clear."

Ted and Tracy could meet on multiple occassions. Saint Patrick's day is obvious, just like Cindy's apartment. But Tracy regularly attended Ted's university, it's confirmed she was at Macklarens at least twice thruout the story, once of which she PASSED TED AT THE STAIRS as he was wearing the dress and picking girls. If she left a minute earlier she would be one he tried to pick up that night.

But it wouldn't work out then. Both because Ted was holding to Robin, partially because she was still holding to her dead boyfriend and partially because Ted was still not ready to really settle down. How Ted met Tracy isn't that important as what he went thru and what man it made him. That allowed him to be happy with her.

Between Friends and The Bing Bang Theory, only How I Met Your Mother hooked me right to the end. Because up to the end it had a purpouse of what story it was telling. And thanks to that, despite it being stretched onto 9 seasons telling the story of 8 years (I think it was 8 years ultimately, from Marshal's and Lily's proposal to meeting Tracy) the final scene of met up, when Downtown train starts playing you can't help but tear up.

Yeah, finished rewatch phew days and couldn't not write something about it, because

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