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"I hope this won&amp;#x27;t come off as an open shill, but facts are facts: I am obsessively keeping an eye out for the mailman today in hopes that I will soon have the latest Entertainment Weekly with its fabulous, champagne-ravaged cover shot of the How I Met Your Mother cast&amp;amp;#8212;and what I&amp;#x27;m assuming is an awesome final-season kickoff article&amp;amp;#8212;in my hands. After all, I&amp;#x27;ve been all pumped up for HIMYM&amp;#x27;s return since we started debating the show&amp;#x27;s best episodes ever. It&amp;#x27;s a rare show that inspires so much affection from its fans, we have to face down the final season with a mixture of dread and extreme excitement; it&amp;#x27;s even rarer that a show still has everything (and I do mean everything) to reveal after we&amp;#x27;ve been watching for eight seasons. Click here, BTW, to read about how season nine will be totally different from all the others. Of course, HIMYM finally threw us a bone in the very last episode of season eight: We got to meet (and, like Ted Mosby, immediately fall in love with) Cristin Milioti. And now, to hold you off until you can get to your own mailbox or the newsstand, let me direct you to this sweet, sweet picture of Josh Radnor and Cristin, a.k.a. Ted and the Mother. It&amp;#x27;s adorable. Did anyone else feel like Cristin was perfect for the part as soon as they laid eyes on her? It was TV love at first sight for me. Photo: CBS"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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