Let’s Call the Golden Bachelor’s “Divorce” What It Really Is
SlateI was still foggy at 8:32 this morning from the rush of lunch-making, dishwasher unstacking, and child-to-school shepherding that I do on weeks when my daughter is with me, when my phone chimed with a text: “Who woulda thought? I forgot; it’s reality tv.” The incoming was from my friend and mentor Ann, who had gotten hooked on the Golden Bachelor at Slate’s suggestion. Ah, Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, the senior citizen–aged lovebirds who had emerged triumphant at the end of Gerry’s turn as the septuagenarian Bachelor. As Scott Nover wrote in Slate on Friday about the end of the pair’s three-month marriage, “the American attention span for Gerry and Theresa’s abbreviated love story had ended.” Related From Slate What We Can Learn From the Golden Bachelor’s Lightning-Quick Divorce Well, I guess I have a little more room in my personal attention span because I spent most of the day trying to figure out why these headlines about the Golden Couple’s divorce were bothering me so much. There’s no way Gerry and Theresa had enough time together to assemble anything that requires a divorce as we commonly think of it.
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The Golden Bachelor Marriage Lasted Three Months. There Was a Good Reason for the Breakup.
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Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist finalize divorce after three months of marriage
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'Golden Bachelor' Couple Announce Divorce 3 Months After Televised Wedding
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The Golden Bachelor divorce: Gerry and Theresa’s split makes all too much sense.
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