Jane the Virgin Recap: Chapter Seventy Two

  Well we are back after a mid-season break from Jane the Virgin, well…not a virgin. Of course, if you haven’t watched the episode stop now, I will be getting into the novela drama that is Jane. We begin, as we do, with our loveable narrator recapping from our last episode (yes, I am about to recap the recap). Some crazy stuff had happened before we took a break. Alba had been proposed to…and said no after not feeling like she could let go of the love she had with her late husband. Xo (Xiomara) was mad at Rogelio—but what is new. Oh they were going to go to therapy, that is definitely new. Aneshka (Petra’s twin) faked her death so she wasn’t dead. Petra had tried to manipulate Aneshka into giving up her shares of the hotel because Aneshka and their mother had plotted to get Luisa (Rafael’s sister) committed after convincing her she was hallucinating a man named Carl—even though Carl was real! Aneshka played the revenge card against Petra and told Luisa that Rafael and Petra had actually lied and were the ones who took advantage of her not them…and then Aneshka died falling off a balcony when confronting Petra (they really need to secure these balconies…). Also Rafael and Jane are lying to the school district so Mateo could go to the better public school. AND THEN Rafael kissed Jane (yawn…). So we start with Jane of course watching a telenovela as a child and witnessing the first kiss of her favorite stars wondering how her first kiss will be. Alba gives her the…