Inspired by one of my favorite movies and book The Martian can you tell that I watched this movie recently? ⸻
The first time Taylor looked up at the stars, she was five.
She was sprawled out in the grass of her backyard in Reading, Pennsylvania, a notebook clutched to her chest and a dollar-store telescope beside her. Her pigtails had come undone, cheeks smudged with dirt, but she didn't care. The sky had her full attention.
By the time she was ten, she'd memorized the names of every moon orbiting Jupiter and made her first home-grown compost for her science fair project: "Can Plants Grow in Simulated Space Soil?" She won first place. Travis Kelce, the class clown turned football prodigy, was in the front row clapping loudest.
She didn't know it then, but he always would be.
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Travis never missed a single science fair.
He'd show up with a foam finger that said "Team Tay" and bring her victory milkshakes afterward. She never missed a single football game, either not even the ones in the pouring rain, when she'd sit in the bleachers with her physics homework on her lap, cheering when his number lit up the scoreboard.
Everyone called them high school sweethearts, but it ran deeper than that.
They were constants in each other's orbits. Anchors in one another's gravity.
When she was 16 and got accepted into a NASA summer training program for gifted teens, he told her, "Go show the stars what you're made of." She kissed him in the locker room of their high school gym with her flight manual still in hand.
And when she was 18, they launched her into the stars.
Taylor Swift: the youngest person in human history to go to space. Travis Kelce: the tight end tearing up the NCAA and working his way to the NFL.
Their lives moved at light speed. And still, they never drifted.
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At 21, they stood at the edge of the lake behind the Kelce family's summer house October 28th.
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