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Romantic love isn’t the be-all and end-all of the human condition. Can popular culture reflect that?
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Now that Taylor Swift seems to have found real love and a partner for life in the form of American football player Travis Kelce (left), it is bittersweet, says the writer.
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In some ways, I have spent the last two decades being more invested in American pop star Taylor Swift’s romantic life than my own.
I watched with amusement in 2009 as she dated a fellow Taylor in American actor Taylor Lautner; I swooned when she hooked up with British pop star Harry Styles at the end of 2012; and I spent a memorable summer in 2016 obsessively following her whirlwind romance with British actor Tom Hiddleston.
