it was only a matter of time before we got an "i dated beto" essay tbh
We always knew this day was coming: when the online confessional/personal essay genre fully metabolized our obsession with “humanizing” politicians (and universal preoccupation with mediocre skater boys), giving us this: Beto + Sasha: the bizarre experience of watching my college boyfriend run for president.
We’re not sure what’s more uncomfortably intimate: the details of young Beto following his gf to astronomy class, or all the photos! (thankfully, these photos were taken before the Myspace/Facebook college couple era, which has since cursed most of the rest of us with the cringe-iest visuals of all time) Anyway, it’s a fine and very nice essay, but let us still never forget the original modern romance-thinly-veiled-as-PR confessional of our time: Jake Tapper’s, of course.