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It’s rare for me to feel totally pleased with a series finale. (I’m a victim of the 2019 Game Of Thrones finale letdown, which is to say I’m traumatized.) But as a vocal member of Team Conrad, and a staunch supporter of the “friends-to-lovers” and “second-chance“ romance tropes, The Summer I Turned Pretty ’s conclusion landed pretty well for me. We finally got Belly and Conrad together. And the finale also happened to include the romance movie clichés that appear in all of my favorites. There was an unbelievably well-choreographed sex scene , passionate declarations of love (I need Conrad’s speech tattooed), and even a slight reinterpretation of the classic rom-com airport chase—though the TSITP Gods opted to have Belly sprint through a train station instead. In fact,

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