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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was interesting that Joan and Peggy reversed at the end.  Peggy started out only wanting a career.  At the end she has a career and love.  Joan started out wanting love and at the end has a career.[/quote]

I'm not sure that Peggy started out only wanting a career.  She got knocked up and had to grieve the loss of the choice she made as a result of the pregnancy.  Then she kept going out with these loser guys because I think deep down she felt guilty about her choice and was punishing herself.  I think it was intentional that the niece spoke so openly about putting her son up for adoption and her feelings because that's where Peggy was for so long.  In a purgatory of punishing herself and feeling that she didn't deserve happiness.  I think when she finally told Stan about the child earlier in the season, he helped her come to terms with it and make peace and she was ready for the real thing finally.  Joan chose to keep her child and had all the family that she needed with Kevin and her mother.  She was content that they were enough for her happiness.  I loved the way Peggy and Joan ended up.  I think the way that Don ended up was appropriate.  Although we all root for Don, he is complex and his call to Peggy showed that he didn't deserve full happiness.  Ironically, when he was confessing his sins, he didn't even mention that he was a deadbeat dad to his two sons?  That's curious that he is so mad at himself that he stole an identity and cheated, but doesn't think that he's wronged his kids.  Typical Don. [/quote]

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