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“I think for me it was not about being straight or gay or bi or queer, it’s more about I think I’m just learning what love is and I love people,” the dancer explained to Jamie Kern Lima. “I don’t know what I’m attracted to, but I choose you. That is the freedom of the love that I was starting to experience.”
And as she began exploring different sides of herself, Brooks, 41, was going through a different journey.
“My ex was contracting,” she said. “Because he had just got let go from playing hockey and he was going through an identity shift.”
To put it plainly, Julianne noted, “It was an expansion for me and a contraction for him, and we weren’t understanding each other, and I don’t think we had the maturity to come together.”
