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<em>The Bachelorette</em>: Memes for the Right Reasons

The premiere of the show’s 13th season featured one woman, 31 men, and … a stuffed dummy.
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They filed in, one by one: Men who warmly hugged Rachel Lindsay, ; men who politely kissed her; men who were awkward; men who were charming; men who were in possession of jaws that were shockingly square. One of them, a singer-songwriter, strode across the perma-wet driveway of the Bachelor mansion playing a guitar and balladeering. Another came armed with a megaphone and a catchphrase (“Whaboom!”). Another came playing drums, accompanied by a full marching band. Another came dressed as a penguin (since, he explained, they “mate for life”). And one of the men, Adam, came with a dummy—a literal one, to be clear: a stuffed doll, about three feet tall,

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