The date had been a success.
Ted's five hundred bucks had been money well spent.
If he hadn't been too lazy to go back to Dating End Station, Ted had even considered tipping Bell Duncan.
Anna Taylor was absolutely his perfect type.
Emmm.
The future Mrs. Mosby, no doubt about it!
He told Adam and the others that when he married Anna, he would definitely invite Bell.
He had apparently already forgotten the girl who had played La Vie en rose in the rain outside the hospital.
Makes sense.
There was no such thing as one-and-only true love. It was simply meeting the right person at the right time and place along life's journey.
Among billions of people, such people were rare, but there was never just one.
This time, Adam did not tease Ted.
Mostly because he did not want to remind him.
It was better to let a girl like that disappear from their world.
Of course, there were plenty of scumbags in this world.
But no matter how bad they were, they could not compare to the Ted-and-Barney duo, who still had far too much fun left in them.
He could only hope Barney would not suddenly develop "true love" for Anna Taylor and once again suggest that Anna be with him until she turned forty, then be with Ted afterward.
That was right!
Even Barney's true love followed basic rules.
True love was only for the young and beautiful.
Once true love got older, past forty, and her skin started sagging badly, that true love died for Barney.
Then Ted could take over and play his version of emotional true love.
That was Barney's hidden dream.
That good girl who played the piano in the rain to mourn her dead boyfriend should stay far away from