Michelle MacAleese

I should be sleeping but I fucked around and mistakenly clicked on a link I wasn't even interested in and went down the most insane rabbit hole and now I know everything about Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue and their 22 years of figure skating together and how they are both straight and married to other people but Scott still worships her in interviews and Scott and Tessa even have a book together called Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold which is like $13.37 for the hard cover but $7.45 for the paperback and gosh have you seen how they hold each other in cover photo, but anyway, you know Scott went and married another skater-turned-physician assistant called Jaclyn so it wasn't that he didn't want to marry a skater and even crazier, on the day Scott and Jaclyn were getting married Scott admitted to talking too much about Tessa even though Tessa was somehow not invited to the wedding or was invited and chose not to go, who knows, then like shortly after Tessa went and married an NHL player Morgan and now both Scott and Tessa have kids with their respective partners and there are people with social media accounts dedicated to waiting for Scott and Tessa to divorce Jaclyn and Morgan so they can finally get married and people have done videos with clips from interviews over 20 years where Tessa is looking at him the way I looked at the first copy of my first book when it arrived and I was finally able to tear it out of the carton with too much padding, and gosh have you seen the way they held each other each time they won a medal and I know I should be sleeping or working or finding a Valentine but I was breathless the whole time I was reading this shit and I don't think I will ever be the same again so I thought I must share this and the cover photo of their $13.37/$7.45 book with you so you see what the hell I have been dealing with.

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