One Insanely Important Thing You Didn't Notice In "How I Met Your Mother"
SPOILER ALERT: You actually won't believe you knew this for almost the entirety of the show.
If you've finished How I Met Your Mother, you know that this is Ted's wife, Tracy:

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She's also the mother of these two kids.

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Just like every fan of the show, you waited in agony to find out who she was. What her name was, what she looked like, how they met — EVERYTHING.
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Then we met her! We found out her name!
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But what if I told you we knew a VERY IMPORTANT FACT about the mother from the VERY beginning of the show?
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Ok, here it is: In the FIRST SEASON of the show we found out her name!!!
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Buckle up, kids: I'm about to tell you the story of how we found out Ted's wife's name. In Season 1, Episode 8, Ted and Robin try to volunteer at a homeless shelter, which doesn't work very well... until they run into Barney.

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Barney is pretty popular at the homeless shelter, y'know, Volunteer of the Year and all, and they eventually get to help a girl sort her donations.

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They sort and sort until they find out the girl is stealing the really good stuff, they cause a ruckus, and then they all get kicked out, along with Barney. This brings them to the Lusty Leopard.

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Ted goes over to the buffet and meets a woman. She says her name is Amber, then says it's actually Tracy. TRACY. Then Ted says, "And that, kids, is the true story of how I met your mother."
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The kids reply totally shocked, and then he says he's just kidding. We all (probably) thought it was a joke.
But isn't that crazy? We all were TOLD that the mother's name was Tracy, and so it couldn't be Stella or Victoria, or whoever wasn't named Tracy.
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Mind blown.
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