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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in Las Vegas in February, 2024. Ms. Swift and Mr. Kelce announced their engagement on Tuesday.

If you listened very closely on Tuesday afternoon, at around 1 p.m. E.T., you could hear an audible “Oh my God” reverberate from various corners all around the world: from women who still have skinny jeans buried in their closets; from a college professor who teased about cancelling class so his students could study her ring; from a police dispatcher who accidentally shared the news on a hot mic. It was like this century’s Krakatoa eruption, but with more heat, and higher-pitched sounds: Taylor Swift and her NFL player boyfriend, Travis Kelce, were engaged . Stop everything.

It’s easy to dismiss the news as frivolous, and compared to everything els

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