See An Outtake Of Ryan's 'Bachelorette' Farewell After Emotional Dumping

Damn it. For a moment, "The Bachelorette" actually got to me a little.

It's the way these competitive reality shows go. At some point after so many weeks, everybody makes a connection with someone, until everybody really has somebody they can root on each week. Ryan Park's bottomless, plucky enthusiasm had him collecting roses like a klepto florist, making his fellow suitors a mite nervous and a more than a little irked that he just might run away with Ashley's hand in his, and just looking like the whole ball of wax might be his to lose.

Then he lost it.

Anybody who's ever shot the moon for a chance with someone their heart sang for - and mock Ashley Hebert as I might (with a song in my heart), who am I to judge - felt for him as on the one-on-one date he'd pined for over six weeks spent falling in love little by little, she had to break him: she just wasn't feeling anything special, and couldn't put him through the Rose Ceremony again.

Bye, Old Yeller. Bang.

In quite literally seconds, he went from a peppy Labrador pup, to a gut-shot look of realization. I know that look better than I like admitting.

Let's take a look at how Ryan handles it when he has to face down five fellow bachelors he knows by now don't take kindly to his light heart . . . knowing full-well that one of them will eventually win over the one he wanted.

I've got to hand it to him: I'm not sure my composure would hold up like his.