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In tonight's This is Usseries penultimate episode, us viewers begin our final goodbye by watching the characters we've come to love through six emotionally stunning seasons say goodbye to Rebecca Pearson (Mandy Moore), the family matriarch.

Inevitably, the episode packs a heavy punch of nonstop tearjerking moments.

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That applies to side/subplots of the episode, which include an unfamiliar family experiencing a fateful night, and adult Déjà revealing some major news. Of course, at the center is Rebecca's final moments, which the family endures at the Poconos house and Rebecca endures in her head, picturing her younger self on a fancy train, like her father always talked about taking her on — thus the episode title "The Train."

Naturally, life lessons abound — perhaps even more on the nose and (beautifully) corny than any others in the show's run.

There's also the sense that although the show was long framed around superdad/husband Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia), as this final season particula

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