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Jason picked his final two in The Bachelor 13 Episode 7. Now, he must choose between Melissa Rycroft and Molly Malaney, one of whom will be The Bachelor 13 winner. The producers are hyping up the Most. Shocking. Finale. Ever. Then again, they do that every year.

Melissa is up first and will be meeting Ty. She hits it off with him on the golf course. Jason leaves them alone for a while as he goes to bring a lamb down to see them, and they get along pretty naturally while he’s gone. Once play time is over, it’s time to go meet the rest of the family, which based on the previews is overprotective (but not so overprotective that they prevent him from going on a game show to meet a wife twice). She will be meeting his mom, dad, both brothers, and sister-in-law. Melissa is willing to move to Seattle because of who’s there. She knows she’s in love with him. The fact that Jason hasn’t met her parents comes up. Again. Ty comes back later and is looking for Melissa so she can play with him. Jason’s father is impressed by Melissa, and his mother thinks she really loves him.

Molly gets the second home date. Jason was not in love with either of these women before this because he needs to see them with Ty. Yet he took them to the final two. Unlike yesterday, Ty’s uninterested in meeting someone new, but he slowly warms up once they start playing. Now it’s Molly’s turn to meet the family. Like Melissa, Molly is in love with Jason. She’s over the crazy party phase, apparently, and is looking to settle down. Jason thinks that he’s probably more different from Molly than he is from Melissa, though he doesn’t necessarily have doubts about either of them. Just a question of which road suits him best. Molly is not worried about moving either. His family likes both girls and doesn’t appear to be a great deal of help in his decision.

Since it keeps coming up over and over and over again, Melissa decides to try one more time. She calls her mom to tell her what’s going on, hoping that at least she’ll agree to talk to Jason on the phone.

He takes her off on a boat for a three hour tour. The weather starts getting rough, but they’re still having fun. That night, unable to wait to tell him, she lets him know right away that her parents want to talk to him on the phone. She’s still hoping he will tell her he loves her, but she will have to settle for an “I’ve never felt this way either.”

Molly gets the next very rainy date. She just wants to head home and get him to strip down so she can give him a massage, then she cooks dinner for him. Molly wants to stress how she feels because she felt like she may have been the one going home last time instead of Jillian, and she doesn’t want to risk that she hasn’t done everything she can. She’s also created a fairy tale book with little things she’s kept throughout the process. Like Melissa, Molly is only able to get an “I’m falling for you.”

As previously arranged, Jason now has the chance to speak to Melissa’s family on the phone. Very little of the conversation is actually shown, but Jason says that it was a good conversation that was the last piece of the puzzle he needed before making a decision.

DeAnna shows up to visit Jason, but it seems to me she’s just there to see him, rather than trying to win him back. The producers just wanted to give us something to talk about by inviting her back. This is lame. This is like something we would see on Big Brother.

Jason compares his situation to DeAnna’s. She went with the fun guy, rather than the more stable relationship guy. Jason has a choice between Melissa, who is what he was looking for, as compared with Molly, who is a lot of fun.

DeAnna acknowledges she made the wrong decision, and she advises him to really go deeper and lead his heart (whatever that means) before he makes his decision.

Molly is the first to get out of the limo. She has enjoyed the journey and wouldn’t give back a minute of it. Jason tells her he gets lost in her eyes, and she’s amazing in every way possible. He doesn’t know how he could ever let her go. But he has to because he’s in love with somebody else. She doesn’t understand and thinks he’s made a big mistake. After walking her back to the limo, he tells her that everything was real. She doesn’t get why he isn’t being smarter about this since he’s already been hurt twice.

Melissa is up next, and it looks like the early spoilers that suggested the producers spoiled the ending on the first episode were correct. Jason came into this looking for someone exactly like her, and now he’s finally able to tell her he’s in love with her. Then it’s time for his proposal. After she turns around and screams for a bit, she accepts.

Update: this happy ending may not be so happy after all. Check out The Bachelor 13 Episode 10.

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