‘Golden Bachelorette’ sends Minnesota-raised widower Mark Anderson home

Still, he questioned whether he was doing the right thing until, filming in California, he spotted a hummingbird. “I tried to catch my breath,” Anderson said, “because it’s like she’s there and she’s saying, ‘This is right.’

“The darkness is going away and it’s becoming brighter and brighter and brighter.”

Anderson was the last of Vassos’ remaining suitors to score a one-on-one date. They sipped sparkling wine on a yacht. They shared stories about their late spouses.

But Vassos noted that she and Anderson, who is “soft-spoken,” were still strangely formal around one another. The next day, she came by to break it off, sparing Anderson a brutal rose ceremony. Instead, she gave her four remaining roses to Ibgui, a French, 69-year-old salon owner; Jordan Heller, a 61-year-old sales executive from Chicago; Guy Gansert, a 66-year-old doctor; and Chock Chapple, a 60-year-old insurance executive from Wichita, Kansas.

Anderson’s departure left many of the other men teary-eyed, especially Ibgui, who called him “my best friend.”

Riding off in the car, Anderson gave a goodbye worthy of a “Golden Bachelor.”