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Allenwood exposition Bette asks Tina not to return to Toronto; the producer, fearing to repeat their past mistakes, leaves. Bette, after talking with Shane and Alice, reaches Tina on the way to the airport, and tells her to be ready to leave everything behind to be together. She asks her ex wife to go together in Canada, Tina accepts and they leave. They return to LA sometimes later to assist to a public reading by Angie's class at college. During the event they get to know that their daughter was having a relationship with her professor and they argue with Angie who sees their concern as an intrusion. At the end of the evening Bette and Tina, who individually were planning to propose, decide to marry again. The series ends with the day of their marriage: it happens to be full of accidents, but it culminates in a heartfelt ceremony.
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Angeles in order to be closer to Angie. Though Bette hopes to renew their relationship, Tina reveals that she is actually looking for a place for herself and Carrie, who she is going to marry, and that she wants to reveal it to Angie along with Bette and Carrie. Though obviously devastated by the news, Bette gives Tina her blessing. In the season finale, both Bette and Angie accept that Tina is not coming back, and Bette accepts a dinner date with a reporter from her mayoral campaign, moving on from Tina.
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