Sorry this was adorable until the last two episodes. Do yourself a favor and don't invest your time because the ending was terrible.

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As for the ending, I think she died and that terrible contrived explanation of his being away was what she saw in her moment of death. That makes a hell of a lot more sense than his lying to all of them about his death for 5 years. I mean, they didn't even do the “I was in a coma and my mom was evil and wanted to be sure Ra Ra would move on so she lied about me dying.” trope. At least that would have been more believable.