On Wednesday morning I woke up to a number of texts, all of them related to the announcement of Taylor Frankie Paul as the next bachelorette for ABC’s “The Bachelorette.” Paul, one of the stars of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” will date 30 or so men on camera in the hopes of finding a fiancee and ratings success.

I wouldn’t say Paul and I have much in common. She’s a reality television star whose meteoric rise to fame began with a widely-covered marital scandal. I’m a humor writer eating a bowl of Doritos as I type this. But she and I do have two essential things in common — living in Utah and being mothers to three children.

In a podcast episode with Alex Cooper announcing Paul’s ascension to the nation’s most single lady, Paul stated that she will need whomever she chooses at the

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