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“The (Hunger) Bachelor Games”: Why Suzanne Collins makes me feel guilty every Monday night.

Okay, if I’m going to do this, I guess I’m going to have to give a disclaimer first:                                                                                               Yes, I do watch the Bachelor.   I have also watched the Bachelorette. Just once. Last season. And I did indeed cry when Sean Lowe was sent home. Hence, I felt compelled to watch the Bachelor this round (for those of you already lost, don’t worry, all will reveal itself in time). So…pathetic? Yes, absolutely. But I think most of us girls know how it goes. We all understand how ridiculous the underlying plot line of the show really is.   25 girls are all competing for the same man. He forms romantic relationships with multiple women, hoping to “test the waters” and see if he might just want to marry one of them.  Needless to say, most of the end-of-season engagements never work out anyway. But regardless, every Monday night we get to watch one sexy man make out (or more!) with a number of