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still bothered in the finale


Rachel gives up a great job for the hundredth try at a relationship, sigh

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It bothers me too.

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She's in love. Love conquers all.

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True but then I'd be thinking "Why didn't love conquer any of the other times/issues with this same guy"

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Why should she go back to that same mess with that same person? Besides, do you remember his so-called joke at the end; "Unless we take a break? Don't make jokes now....." That just states that he learned absolutely nothing the first time around and is bound to screw them up the same way again!

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Literally every job in fashion she had completed landed in her lap. She worked for nothing.

Mark gave her a job because he wanted to sleep with her. Then Ross convinced her boss to keep giving her a pay rise (for a fake dinosaur egg... because that's a thing). Then Mark got her the job in Paris.

I like to think Rachel eventually had the self-awareness to realise she'd earnt none of her success and so decided to stay.

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