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were orchestrated, but Telesca and other experts don’t think that’s what’s going on here.

“They obviously enjoy each other’s company,” Telesca said of Kelce and Swift. “They were at an after-party together. It’s not like they just got a pap shot and left.”Many of Swift’s fans are already all-in on the romance, believing wholeheartedly (and maybe naively) that their idol would never deceive them.

Others, including “The View” host Sara Haines, believe Kelce and Swift’s pairing is an elaborateurged 34-year-old Taylor Swift, currently dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, to get married. According to this piece, Swift could then find stability and contentment, diverging from a path of serial monogamy and public heartbreaks (often referenced in her lyrics). And by marrying now, she would improve her chances to have kids, something the pop star has acknowledged as a potential goal.

When I was 34, I threw myself a bachelor party as a new professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Fifteen friends visited my new home for a weekend of hiking, poker, wiffleball, tailgating and the obligatory bar crawl.

There was just one hitch: I wasn’t getting hitched.

Instead, after a recent “near miss,” I began to doubt that matrimony was the right path for me. I thought, Who gets to decide that you need to get married in order to celebrate your singlehood?