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Taylor Swift Impersonator at Rye Free Reading Room: Why Everyone Pretended She Was Real

Last weekend in Westchester, Taylor Swift was at the Rye Free Reading Room on Sunday. That's not exactly true.  If you squinted hard enough, you could certainly see a person who might have kind of sort of looked like Taylor Swift moving in the syncopated rhythm that one sees when you watch her Eras Tour on Disney Plus. Yet, even through the endless avalanche of soap bubbles spitting out into air like exhaust from a used car in the winter, we knew it wasn't her. We being the seemingly hundreds of parents who had given up their Sunday to look for parking for a full hour so that the family could stand on a singular plot of land as face painted kids screamed around them. Despite the blaring music that knocked a migraine into the entirety of my body, I knew the person being called Taylor Swift wasn't the same person who once wrote an entire song about John Mayer, or maybe didn't, but certainly wrote one about Harry Styles. I knew she wasn't the person my oldest had poste...