ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What are you most excited to see, Jesse?
JESSE: Endless sunsets with her. I just can't wait.
DeAnna, would your friends call you every week after the show aired to guess who you would eventually choose?
DEANNA: Absolutely. My friends and family — everybody is crazy. They put up poster boards with photos of the guys' faces and X'd them off as they left each week. Their final four would change each week, and it was a fun process to go through. Everyone was so scared to say anything because they were like, ''If you choose this guy, I don't want to have said anything bad about him,'' and I was like, ''It's okay. It doesn't matter who I choose. Everyone is going to love him.''
What percentage of people were right?
DEANNA: It's funny, by the time it got to final four, the majority of my family was correct, and all of my cousins and the majority of my best friends. They were all correct.
Jesse, is that the longest you've ever gone without snowboarding?
JESSE: Yeah, I think it was the longest I've ever gone. I usually snowboard about 300 days a year, and I would say this year I'll be lucky to get about 75 to 80 days in. I missed the shred stick for sure.
DeAnna, when the guys would come and stay in the house with you, was there a limited amount of time they could actually spend hanging out, or could they just chill with you anytime and you were never alone?
DEANNA: There is a lot of downtime. Those quick 30 minutes where I'm in between getting ready for a date, we would all hang out by the pool and make breakfast or something like that, so there is actually a lot of time to get to know each other.
Are you going to learn how to snowboard?
DEANNA: I am. Hopefully I'll catch on quickly.
JESSE: She's all paranoid, but she's a natural athlete, and she'll kill it.
You said you'd live in Atlanta during the summers. Are you heading there soon?
JESSE: We're actually getting ready to go back to Ohio [Jesse's home state] to spend time with my family, and then we're going to take a short trip up to Mount Hood so I can take some photos for snowboarding and D. can learn how to snowboard, and then we're going to drive back down through Yellowstone National Park to Colorado and then truck it down to Georgia to spend some time with her family and friends — until the winter!
Is there anything you would change about the whole experience?
DEANNA: No way. I definitely live my life with no regrets, and I definitely did this experience with no regrets. The tears were all really real, the happiness was real, and the outcome of the show was much better than I ever could have imagined in my entire life. I wouldn't change anything for the world. Everything happens for a reason, and I'm very thankful.
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