Carly Mallenbaum

USA TODAY

The new season of The Bachelorette doesn't premiere until next week, but we already know it has a happy ending.

The bachelorette, herself, Rachel Lindsay, announced Thursday that her show is going to end in a proposal. I'm "very much so in love and very much so engaged," she said on a press call. "If I had a list, he would check everything off."

It's not customary for a Bachelor or Bachelorette to reveal her dating show's outcome. After all, it precludes host Chris Harrison from saying Season 13 is "the most dramatic one yet."

So why did Rachel, the Dallas attorney who unsuccessfully competed for Nick Viall's heart on The Bachelor, share the news?

Because "it's a season of firsts," she told USA TODAY.

Lindsay is the first woman of color to be the star of the popular ABC franchise, she's the first Bachelorette star to be named before her Bachelor season ended, she's had the most diverse cast of men vying for her heart and, at 32, "I think I'm the oldest" woman to hand out roses," she told us.

The only other thing she'll say about her husband-to-be is that choosing him "was not an easy decision."

ABC's The Bachelorette premieres Monday (9 ET/PT).