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OLDER TED: Kids,
the day you get married
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is supposed to be
the happiest day of your life.
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The perfect ending to a perfect love story.
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My wedding, at least my first wedding,
didn't go so well.
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Say that I'm changed
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Say I'm different
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Maybe I finally understand
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Say I've let go
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It's funny, looking back on it now.
I was so sure Stella was the one.
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And when she left me,
I was so devastated.
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But you guys got me through it.
And now the painful part's over.
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I've come out the other side
a little bit stronger.
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You know, I hardly
even think about her anymore.
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That's what time does, I guess.
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Ted, the wedding was yesterday.
It's been 24 hours.
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I know. And this is me moving on.
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A great new chapter of my life
began today, and we're gonna celebrate.
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Right now, we need two things.
We need Kool and we need the Gang.
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It's jukebox time, huh?
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(EX CLAIMS)
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(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
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I look at that young man
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popping and locking his way
over to the jukebox
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and I think to myself, "You know,
maybe Stella made the right call."
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Ow! Pain.
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What? How is he dancing right now?
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He should be smashing up Stella's car
with a sledgehammer.
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Hypothetical.
Ted isn't pretending to be happy.
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Ted really is happy. He never wanted
to get married in the first place.
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Ted just pulled off the greatest
train dodge since Stand by Me.
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Well, not the first kid, but the other kids.
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No, he is in bad shape.
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What's up?
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Really bad shape.
And we need to be there for him.
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OLDER TED: But as much as my friends
really wanted to be there for me,
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I was, by all appearances, fine.
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- Hey, buddy.
- Want to hang out?
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Guys, I'm fine.
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- Hey, pal, you want to have a catch?
- I'm fine.
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- Hey, kiddo.
- (SIGHS) Barney, I'm fine.
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This is not necessary,
and it's actually kind of weird.
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- No offense, ladies.
- I did not realize you'd be home.
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Ladies, to the stairwell.
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OLDER TED: Finally, after two weeks,
the inevitable emotions boiled over.
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- Hey, you guys want to get some dinner?
- Oh, shut up.
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I'm sorry, sweetie.
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It's just, Ted, you've been through
something traumatic,
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and we're trying to be there for you
as friends, but you're not letting us,
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and it's pissing us off,
you selfish bitch. Sorry.
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Look, we're just worried that you're not
dealing with this whole Stella thing.
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Okay, now, do you remember
when Lily left me?
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You remember how I held in my feelings?
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(CRYING) I miss her so much.
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Yeah, dude, you were a rock.
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Well, I should have been even worse,
okay? I should have gotten mad.
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I should have taken your advice
and set all of Lily's stuff on fire.
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Oh. Nice. Thanks, Ted.
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But I didn't, and I think that that's why
it took me so long to get better.
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So, now, Ted, I want you to explode.
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Release the berserker. Okay, you ready?
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Now!
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- I'm good.
- LILY: No.
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Guys, get off his back. He's happy.
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Listen, if Ted were married right now,
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he'd be married,
he'd be living in New Jersey,
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and he'd be married.
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He's fine. Now, let's eat.
How about Flat Michael's?
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No, that's 44th and Lex. Can't do it.
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- Why not?
- It's too close to Stella's gym.
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Might run into her. Anywhere else, though.
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Okay, how about Hurley's?
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(ALL EX CLAIMING)
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Right between Stella's office
and her dry cleaners. No, sir.
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Well, what about Meatloaf Charlie's?
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Two blocks
from Stella's mother's hairdressers.
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Well, jeez, Ted, is there anywhere
in Manhattan we can go to dinner?
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(LAUGHS) Of course. Check this out.
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- What you got there, Ted?
- A little reference map I made for myself.
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A New York guide to places
you might run into Stella Zinman.
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Red areas are places to avoid.
White areas are safe. Blue is water.
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- That is just ridiculous.
- Well, water is blue.
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You can't live that way.
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She leaves you at the altar
and you're the one avoiding her?
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Yes, I'm avoiding her.
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What's the big deal? That's how we do it.
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Who's "we"? Gutless weenies?
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No, "we" is people
from the great state of Ohio.
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When life gives us pain, we Buckeyes
take that pain and we push it down.
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And if the pain starts to come up again,
we push more pain down on top of it.
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Why confront something
when you can avoid it, right?
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All I have to do is never see Stella again,
and I'll live a long, happy life.
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Now, who wants to get something to eat?
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Oh. Somebody just told me about
a tapas place that's in the white zone.
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Great. Let's go there.
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- You ready to order?
- Not quite yet.
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(EX CLAIMS) Can we get some of
those almonds for the table?
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Certainly.
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Nice call, Lily. This place looks great.
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- Who told you about it?
- You know, I don't remember.
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Uh-oh.
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- What?
- (NERVOUSLY) I just remembered.
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Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Okay, okay, just be cool.
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We're just gonna have to deal with this.
Everyone, follow my lead.
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- Oh, you're kidding.
- Is he serious?
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I am not getting under this table.
I'd maybe get under that table.
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She's turning around.
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(WHISPERING) Think, think, think.
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Everyone, just stay here.
I'm gonna go take a look.
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Marshall, go take a look.
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- And will you need utensils?
- No, I'm just going straight home.
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She's placing an order to go.
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Did she seem happy?
Did she say anything about me?
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I don't care. I don't even care.
Where are those almonds?
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Gosh, where would Ted's nuts be?
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Hey, why don't you check
the vise in Stella's garage?
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Go yell at her.
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Ted, you may be from Ohio,
but you live in New York now.
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We don't push down
our feelings in New York.
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We take our feelings and
we shove them in somebody else's face!
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Spare me, Lily.
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You'd be doing the same thing
if you were in this situation.
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That's outrageous.
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There is not a person on Earth
I would hide under a table from.
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Really, not a single person?
Not even Gasser?
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- How dare you mention that name to me.
- Who's Gasser?
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He's the last person I'd want to see
walk through that door.
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Michael Sasser.
He's a guy I went to high school with.
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LIL Y: Michael sat next to me
in freshman biology.
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He had been a bit of a loser
all through middle school.
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But the summer before ninth grade,
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he grew 12 inches
and joined the baseball team.
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He was right on the precipice
of becoming one of the cool kids.
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Until one day...
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(FARTING)
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Lily, we've all been there.
When you've ripped one, it's not pretty.
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What did you do?
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Are you kidding? This was ninth grade.
I only had one choice.
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Oh, my God, Sasser. Fart much?
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(CHUCKLES)
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- No, it wasn't me. It was her.
- Oh! As if, Sasser.
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More like Gasser.
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- Gasser! Gasser! Gasser!
- Gasser! Gasser! Gasser!
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- No.
- Gasser! Gasser! Gasser! Gasser!
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I'm on the baseball team. I'm cool.
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Gasser! Gasser!
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The nickname Gasser stuck.
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He got teased so much,
eventually he had to change schools.
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- (LAUGHS) Kids are awesome.
- I've always felt awful about that.
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But if Gasser... Michael
walked in right now,
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as hard as it would be,
I would go up to Gasser... Michael
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and I would resolve things between us.
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Right, clear the air, as it were.
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(LAUGHING) Oh, man.
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Those don't come around often.
Y'all are welcome.
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- Hey, are you guys okay?
- Oh. Yeah.
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We're just gonna be eating down here
if that's okay.
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- What?
- Well, here's your almonds.
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Oh. Thanks.
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- You guys have any specials tonight?
- Ted, this is ludicrous.
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Ted, I am a person who...
Well, let's just face it.
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There are a lot of people
I don't want to see,
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people of the chicks-l-banged persuasion.
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But if any of them were to walk in here,
I would stand up
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and I would look them right in the eye.
Some of them for the very first time.
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Really, you wouldn't hide from anyone?
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Uh-uh.
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- Not even, say, Becca DeLucci?
- You son of a bitch.
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- Who's Becca DeLucci?
- Do you mind?
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So, who is Becca DeLucci?
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Becca is just this girl who lives upstate.
I used to visit her now and again.
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Mmm-hmm.
Where exactly upstate, Barney?
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Bedford Hills Federal Penitentiary.
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BARNEY: And yes, the visits
were of a conjugal nature.
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(ALL GROANING)
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- No. No way, really?
- Really.
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And what I had with Becca
was a perfect relationship.
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She was only allowed, by law,
to call me once a week.
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If she ever got clingy,
the armed guards stopped her.
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And I never had to pay for dinner.
Well, that's not true. I pay taxes.
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Then again, I guess we all paid for dinner.
Thanks a lot, guys.
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Anyway, the last time I visited,
I kind of screwed things up.
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I know it's hard, baby,
but I'm in a prison, too.
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I know it's hard, baby,
but I'm in a prison, too.
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A prison of my own heart.
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Is that room ready yet or what?
Can we... Tick-tock.
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Barney, you're the only thing
that's keeping me going here.
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That's what I'm here for, baby.
I'm your rock.
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I'm... Oh, my God. Hello, strange.
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Hi, Barney Stinson, attorney at law.
Let's talk about getting you off.
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BECCA: Oh, hell, no!
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(GROANING)
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Whoa!
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(BOTH SCREAMING)
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Ooh.
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Now I get letters from Becca and she's all,
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"I'm coming to get you
the day I get out of here.
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"I'm gonna hang your eyes
from my rearview mirror."
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Women, huh?
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(LAUGHS)
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See? You're scared of Becca.
Lily's scared of Gasser.
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We're staying under the table.
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- We don't have to. Stella's gone.
- Oh, my gosh.
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(SIGHS)
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(CHUCKLES) There, all done,
and that's how we do it Ohio-style.
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Problem showed up. We avoided it.
It went away.
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Now we can enjoy our meal in peace...
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She's back.
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Ted, we all think that you need...
Wait, where's Barney?
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Ted, we all think
that you need to go talk to her.
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- I don't.
- What?
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Yeah, if the last person I wanted to see
walked through the door,
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I wouldn't say a damn word.
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- Really?
- And who's that?
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My father.
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You guys, that other table is off the hook.
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- What are we talking about?
- Robin's dad.
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I haven't spoken to him in three years
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- and I don't intend to start now.
- Why?
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ROBIN: It goes back
to the day I was born.
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You give me my son now. Push.
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(BABY CRYING)
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Oh, no.
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Oh, no.
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He wanted a son and the fact
that I was a girl didn't change his plan.
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What do you mean?
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(SIGHS) My full legal name is
Robin Charles Scherbatsky, Jr.
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And it only gets worse from there.
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ROBIN: When I was eight,
he took me hunting for the first time.
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- I don't want to shoot a deer.
- Nonsense, R.J.
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- Shooting deer is the noblest of pursuits.
- But they're cute.
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You said the same thing about our rabbits.
Remember how delicious they were?
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- Over the years, as my body developed...
- Hold on a sec.
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Sorry, go on.
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It became harder and harder for him
to pretend I was a boy.
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ROBIN: The lowest moment came
when I turned 14.
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My peewee hockey team
had just won the Squamish invitational
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and everyone came back
to my house to celebrate.
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You lads availed yourself splendidly
out there on the ice.
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Splendidly. You go on outside.
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I'll come back with an assortment
of soft drinks and American pretzels.
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(ALL EX CLAIMING)
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Hey, I can't believe you missed
that last empty-netter, you hoser.
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- You're the hoser.
- No, you're the hoser.
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(GASPS)
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What are you doing?
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You're teammates, hockey players.
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Teammates don't kiss!
Hockey players don't kiss!
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Oh, my God.
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I have no son.
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You poor thing.
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To have to grow up in Canada
with America right there.
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That sucks about your dad, Robin,
but congratulations on that game.
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And Kyle and I
weren't even doing anything serious.
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- We only went to the blue line.
- The blue line?
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Yeah, you know how when you're a kid,
you put everything into hockey terms?
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The blue line is kissing,
the red line is getting naked,
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and I think "in the crease"
speaks for itself.
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Anyway, after that, my relationship
with my dad pretty much went north.
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I moved in with my mom,
grew my hair out,
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became a Canadian pop star.
You know, normal teen stuff.
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Don't you think it would feel better
to talk to him about all this?
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No, that's the point.
It wouldn't solve anything.
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It's in the past. It's done.
I mean, what would I even say to him?
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"I wish you hadn't raised me as a boy?
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"I wish you hadn't taught me how to hunt
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"and fish and smoke cigars
and drink Scotch
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"because that's not what girls do.
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"And you know,
the reason I throw like a girl, Dad,
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"is because I am a girl."
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(SIGHS)
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You've held on to that
for a long time, huh?
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Yeah.
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It really messed you up.
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Yeah.
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- That sucks.
- I'm sorry.
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That's hot.
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OLDER TED: And then I realized...
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All of my friends were haunted,
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but there was a difference
between my ghost and theirs.
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It wasn't too late for me.
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- I'm gonna go talk to her.
- All right, bud.
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(SIGHS)
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- She's gone. I'm going after her.
- Go, go.
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There she goes! Taxi!
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Okay, I see her.
She's two cabs ahead on the right.
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Just stay with her, okay?
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Finally. Finally, you're doing this.
You're gonna confront her.
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- Yes, I am gonna confront her.
- Yeah.
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- This is so exciting.
- Totally.
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What are you going to say?
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I'm gonna say, "Stella,
I'm sorry things didn't work out."
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- No!
- Yes.
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We're going to talk about this like adults.
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She can tell me her side
and I'm going to listen.
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Probably should have done
a little more of that before.
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Driver, can you run us
into the nearest lamppost?
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Everyone, buckle up. Not you, Ted.
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Ted, Ted, you gotta get mad right now.
Come on. Dig deep.
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Dude, come on.
This isn't about me waving my arms,
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stamping my feet, and getting really mad.
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00:16:02,851 --> 00:16:05,649
This is about Stella and I
finally communicating.
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- I mean, clearly, that was...
- Stella hated Star Wars.
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She lied to you.
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00:16:10,059 --> 00:16:12,823
Search your feelings, Ted.
You know it to be true.
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- Well, that's her business.
- Come on, Ted. She left you at the altar.
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- I don't understand!
- Ted, in the name of all that is sacred...
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Wait, wait, wait!
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00:16:22,906 --> 00:16:25,670
Where is she going? Her cab just missed
the turn for the Lincoln Tunnel.
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Why would anybody buy takeout food
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and bring it all the way back
to New Jersey anyway?
312
00:16:29,681 --> 00:16:32,241
- Maybe she's going to her office.
- No.
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The waiter asked her,
"And will you need utensils?"
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And then she said,
"No, I'm just going straight home."
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00:16:37,755 --> 00:16:40,850
But if she's going home,
why are we still heading...
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00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,291
Oh, my God.
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Tony lives downtown.
Home is Tony's apartment.
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She was gonna make me
move to New Jersey,
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and then she moves into the city
with Tony?
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- Son of a bitch!
- Finally. Finally, buddy.
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00:16:58,646 --> 00:17:01,513
- I am so angry right now!
- I know, and I love it!
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(SHOUTING)
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00:17:03,651 --> 00:17:05,380
Yeah, that is awesome!
324
00:17:05,486 --> 00:17:08,945
Sir, we'd be happy to cover
the cost of that window crank.
325
00:17:09,091 --> 00:17:11,787
- I love angry Ted!
- So do I!
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(ALL CHEERING)
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00:17:13,295 --> 00:17:16,788
- Let it out, baby. Let it out.
- She's stopping.
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00:17:16,899 --> 00:17:19,800
- It is on. It is on!
- Yes, Ted.
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00:17:19,902 --> 00:17:22,496
- Go get her, buddy!
- Go get rid of your demons!
330
00:17:22,605 --> 00:17:23,663
My leg is asleep!
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00:17:23,773 --> 00:17:26,173
- Okay, wait, wait, wait. Wait, hold on.
- Lily, what are you doing?
332
00:17:26,276 --> 00:17:28,574
No, no, no. This is all right, hold on.
333
00:17:28,679 --> 00:17:32,046
Look, Ted, it's great
that you're angry right now...
334
00:17:32,149 --> 00:17:34,174
- It sure is.
- Yes.
335
00:17:34,284 --> 00:17:38,585
And that you're finally dealing with this,
but you only get one shot here.
336
00:17:38,690 --> 00:17:43,286
Let's just take a beat
and think about what you're gonna say.
337
00:17:43,395 --> 00:17:46,832
I know exactly what I'm gonna say.
Yeah.
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00:17:56,109 --> 00:17:58,077
You picked the wrong guy.
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00:17:59,046 --> 00:18:00,070
Ted.
340
00:18:01,014 --> 00:18:02,982
You picked the wrong guy.
341
00:18:04,684 --> 00:18:09,713
You made a really, really,
really bad choice.
342
00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:16,229
What were you thinking? That guy?
Are you kidding me?
343
00:18:16,331 --> 00:18:19,459
Have you learned nothing
in the last eight years?
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00:18:19,568 --> 00:18:21,661
You're just gonna regret this.
You know that, right?
345
00:18:21,770 --> 00:18:23,397
You are going to regret this,
346
00:18:23,505 --> 00:18:25,201
and now
there is nothing you can do about it
347
00:18:25,308 --> 00:18:27,139
because it's too late.
348
00:18:27,977 --> 00:18:33,438
All you can do now is go up there
and start your crappy, disappointing life
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00:18:33,550 --> 00:18:38,045
that will never be nearly as happy
as the one you could have had with me.
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00:18:39,323 --> 00:18:40,654
Goodbye.
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00:18:40,758 --> 00:18:42,123
- Ted, wait.
- Look, Stella,
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00:18:42,226 --> 00:18:44,957
I am not here to win you back.
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00:18:45,063 --> 00:18:48,328
I am here because I need to know
that you know
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00:18:49,568 --> 00:18:53,403
- you made the biggest mistake of your life.
- I know.
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00:18:57,243 --> 00:18:58,301
Good.
356
00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:02,908
That's what I'm gonna say.
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00:19:03,016 --> 00:19:04,040
(ALL EX CLAIMING)
358
00:19:04,151 --> 00:19:05,914
- Cold-blooded.
- Yeah, that's good.
359
00:19:06,019 --> 00:19:07,384
Go say that.
360
00:19:10,390 --> 00:19:11,516
STELLA: Thanks.
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00:19:11,959 --> 00:19:14,827
OLDER TED: So I got out of the cab,
ready to say all of that stuff,
362
00:19:14,929 --> 00:19:17,295
ready to explode, but then...
363
00:19:17,398 --> 00:19:19,525
- Mommy!
- STELLA: Hey.
364
00:19:20,835 --> 00:19:22,360
STELLA: Hi, sweetie.
TONY: Me first. Me first.
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00:19:22,471 --> 00:19:23,460
(STELLA LAUGHING)
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00:19:23,572 --> 00:19:25,437
OLDER TED: It all just went away.
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00:19:30,146 --> 00:19:33,514
And that was it.
In that moment, I wasn't angry anymore.
368
00:19:34,751 --> 00:19:36,853
I could see Stella
was meant to be with Tony.
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00:19:36,853 --> 00:19:37,342
I could see Stella
was meant to be with Tony.
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00:19:38,388 --> 00:19:41,153
Kids, you may think your only choices
are to swallow your anger
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00:19:41,259 --> 00:19:43,352
or throw it in someone's face.
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00:19:43,461 --> 00:19:47,056
But there's a third option,
you can just let it go.
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00:19:47,165 --> 00:19:48,996
And only when you do that
is it really gone,
374
00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:50,966
and you can move forward.
375
00:19:51,069 --> 00:19:55,335
And that, kids, was the perfect ending
to a perfect love story.
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00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:00,207
It just wasn't mine.
Mine was still out there waiting for me.