Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce practically broke the internet when they announced they are engaged to be married after two years of dating, somehow without the news getting leaked first. It goes without saying that it made for a big week for Swifties, given that many of them have been following the singer’s moments of romance and heartbreak through her music since she was a teenager. Following the big news and her ginormous ring, one of Swift’s old diary entries that she released during the Lover era is especially getting fans emotional for her.
Over on Tumblr, a lot of Swifties are looking back on a diary entry of Taylor Swift’s from March 17, 2009, when the singer was 19 years old, and had released her second album Fearless just four months prior. In the entry, which was part of one of deluxe editions of Lover, a teenaged Swift is in awe over being on the cover of Rolling Stone and selling out her Madison Square Garden shows in one minute. And yet, she wasn’t feeling confident about her future chances in love. In her words:
