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The trouble with The Bachelorette (this time)

Twenty-eight of this year’s eligible bachelors, including a firefighter, a fitness instructor and a pro wrestler

ABC’S TWIN REALITY SHOWS The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are putatively about romance. But their real subject is infatuation, that first blush when one falls in love with the idea of love, and all the associated drama. Each installment—in which a protagonist picks from a dating pool (a term not meant in this case to imply depth)—is about loud fights, exotic vacations and ostentatious, if justified, body

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