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It’s always difficult on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, once they get to the at-home dates. To meet someone else’s family is such a big thing, and to see what it’s like to be in their environment. This time around, two of the guys raised the stakes to make it just that much bigger and that much more difficult of a decision.

Jeremy bonded with Deanna early on, as while she has lost her mother, he has lost both parents. Once he invited her inside his home you could just feel it in the air. You could feel the emptiness that was reaching out for hopefulness. While Jeremy showed pictures of his beautiful mother, he then went one step further, showing Deanna the entry he had written in his journal about how he felt when his mom died. His brothers and sister-in-law were so protective meeting Deanna, and you just knew it was because of all that they have gone through together. They were like a group of survivors, and Deanna just seemed to be one of them.

Just when we thought it couldn’t get that much more emotional for Deanna, she met with Jason in his hometown. As she pointed out, she wasn’t just meeting parents that could say they don’t like her, she was meeting Jason’s son. She also pegged it correctly when she noted that witnessing Jason reuniting with his son that he hadn’t seen in weeks was like something out of a movie. And for someone like her that is looking to get serious with a man and start a family very quickly, it’s all right there for her. Once she met the rest of his family, she seemed like she was one of them. She fit in perfectly.

I didn’t get that same feeling from Graham’s family. While Deanna got along with them, it just didn’t seem as natural as it seemed with Jeremy and his family or with Jason and his. While everyone got along, and it wasn’t one of those awkward parental situations that we sometimes find here, it just didn’t go as naturally as the others. Jesse’s was one of those situations where it was great, but didn’t stand out as being special in any certain way.When it came to Deanna eliminating someone tonight, we’d already been alerted to the fact that she was going to cry with one of the guys tonight telling them she wanted him in the end. We knew it would probably be Graham, but was it a trick by ABC? It looked like she would be saying goodbye to him, but was she really going to?

In the end, it was no trick. Deanna let Graham go, keeping the two guys she had the emotional visits with, as well as the guy whose visit just didn’t stand out as being very special. As much as Graham wanted to make her think she was wrong, I don’t think she was. If he couldn’t let her in at this point, when he knew everything was on the line, especially when he was at his own house, he wasn’t ever going to. Even his own mother told her she wasn’t sure if he was ready to settle down.

For Deanna, after what she has already been through, she just couldn’t take a chance. Graham didn’t seem to know what he wanted any more than Brad did. And while it was great that he left her with that note, if it was something he didn’t feel he could say to her face, they didn’t have the connection she thought they did. It was too one-sided, as she had that physical attraction to him from the beginning.

I’ve felt at the beginning that Jason would be the one Deanna would pick in the end. She said after he told her finally about his son, that she told him things about her feelings with her mom that she hadn’t told anyone before. When she was looking to be comforted another night, it was his arms she fell into. She may not have had that immediate physical thing that she did with Graham, but her connection to Jason is so much more really, a real, deep caring relationship that I don’t see with any other guy that was there, including Jeremy.

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