I keep thinking about Carly Rae Jepsen. Yes, the “Call Me Maybe” Carly Rae Jepsen. But before I get into that, I need to talk about a dance contestant who competed on the fourth season of So You Think You Can Dance. I promise it will all tie together.
If you’re a true Jepsen fan, you already know where this is going.
The year was 2008. The man was Mark Kanemura. Mark was a jazz dancer, or at least this is how he was introduced on the show. He had a kind face and bangs like Pete Wentz. He was best known on the show for his Emmy-nominated dance to Leona Lewis’s “Bleeding Love,” but he was better known in my heart as my future husband. It didn’t matter that I was a teen living in rural Idaho who had never met another gay person. I loved Mark, and we would be together. Forever.
But then the TV show ended, and I completely forgot about him. For a decade.
