#this is just One on one of his many stupid shirts of his recovery/depression era

[dianagj-art]

what if he wore this... for no reason in particular

[xxbbrrooookkee]

Let me start by saying that the weekend of my Taylor concert was the most amazing, magical and unexpected weekend of my actual entire life.

I’ve been a fan of Taylor since 2009 and I saw Speak Now, Red, 1989 and Reputation. I grew up in Toronto but moved to Vancouver in 2010, so I’ve only seen Taylor in Vancouver and Seattle (until this tour). I knew Taylor was meeting more fans this era, but I never went out of my way to try and get noticed... I would RT my stuff but I was just happy and thankful knowing I got to see Taylor.

I went to the Reputation Tour in Seattle and it was supposed to be my only show (I took a picture doing TaylorS surprised face and said to my mum “Look I’m Taylor doing her iconic surprised face”). I loved it SO much though that I wanted to surprise my younger cousin in Toronto with tickets for her 16th birthday... I sent her costumes (made them in Vancouver, shipped them to Toronto) and the tickets and she was in TEARS.

Fast forward to the first night. Not much happened. It was hot so we got there late and I missed my meet up. We tried to hug Andrea but couldn’t. I met a few people off my twitter group and it was so much fun! We meet up with family friends who everyone thought looked like Taylor. I made a joke that I didn’t need to meet Taylor because I already had. It was so much fun being so close but not a lot happened (besides seeing the actual Queen).

Night two, we got there a bit earlier (4:15) and we went to the gate where my meet up was. It was about 4:30 and my aunt was getting a drink, my cousin and I were just waiting, literally just standing and talking/singing to each other while I tried to find everyone from my twitter group who was meeting up.

Out of absolutely no where (it seemed like that, at least), a man and woman came up and said “Wow, we really love your outfits, can we take a picture of you for social media?”. We said yes, and I honestly thought they were from a booth because that’s how it was in Seattle.

After that, they came closer and started asking us a bunch of questions (where we were from, how long it took to make the outfits, what tours we’ve been to, if we went to night one, etc). I got to show them a picture of our night one shirts, and still had zero idea this was TN (I did think it was weird they weren’t dressed up or excited but were running a booth). Then they asked us where our seats were from both nights - we told them and thought maybe they wanted to upgrade us but we were sitting close enough. Then they looked at each other and asked us if we’d ever met Taylor Swift and I said “NO, I WISH though”, still with no idea this was TN. Then they asked us the infamous “Do you pinky promise you’ve never met Taylor” - and we said yes and I finally started freaking out in my head, wondering if they were going to ask us THE question, if this was actually happening. They did and I burst into tears. I asked them 5 times if they were serious and I asked if I could give them a hug. They asked us for ID, put a wrist band on us and gave us a piece of paper with the instructions for where to go. I cried on and off from 4:30 (the time it happened) to 6:45 (the time we met her).

We hugged, the left, I cried and was in shock and disbelief, I met some people and everyone in my group was SO supportive and congratulating me. And I was sweating because it was an oven LOL.

We met at the back of the floor 45 minutes after the gates opened and security and some people from TN took us to a room underneath the seats. They made us put ALL our stuff on a table before we went in.

When we got into the room, we saw the throne, the snake bench and a few tour outfits. They gave us some Polaroid cameras and we could take us many pictures as we wanted for about 10 minutes until they made us line up to meet Taylor (what?!?!?). I found an AC so I stood in front of it, then went to stand in front of it again but Taylor walked right by - I jumped and screamed and cried some more. She said hi to us and said she’d see us soon, then walked to a little area blocked off by curtains where she meets us. I literally was dying and two workers had to remind me to breathe.

When it was our turn to meet her (we chose to be lazy in line), we walked into the little area and it was SURREAL. She said hi and we gave her a hug, and she giggled at our outfits. She pointed out everything about them and said “You didn’t miss a single detail, you look like 5 year olds at your birthday party”. Stupid, nervous me said “it’s like you brought your cats to the show tonight” and she said “yeah I don’t even have to miss them tonight”. Then she asked if we should take a picture and I asked her to do her surprised face (partly because I wanted to ask her not to lean without asking her not to lean, partly because it’s ICONIC). Then the security opened the curtain for us to leave and I asked Taylor if I could tell her one more thing, and she said yes. I got to thank her for saving my life in 2009 with her song “Change” when I was going through depression - I left out a lot of detail because of my younger cousin but I got to say thank you and I’m so happy about that. She said you’re welcome and thanked me for letting her be part of my recovery. I started tearing up and she gave me another hug, then we left and on our way out I shouted “good luck” and she shouted “thank you”. And then just as fast as it started, it ended.

Then we had an amazing night and to this day I’m still trying to process that I have a picture of me and Taylor Swift as my home and lock screen and it’s not a wax figure.

I can’t believe I actually wrote this story and had this amazing and once in a lifetime (if that) opportunity. I feel so lucky and will never forget this moment - I’ll forever be thankful.

And if you do meet Taylor or have met Taylor, don’t say it could have been better. Just getting to hug our idols is amazing. There are so many things I would have loved to tell her and maybe one day I will, but I am so grateful that I got to hug her and say thank you, that’s something I never thought would happen and something I’ll always appreciate and never forget.

That’s all. I hope you’re all enjoying your lives and are finding things to smile about 💜 I appreciate all of you in this fandom because who all make me smile and get me through the days, you always make me laugh and smile, and I’m just so happy that I’m a part of this Swiftie fandom and community, I picked the right people to talk to and be friends with 💕💜😘😄

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