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TIL Taylor Swift was born into alot of money.. Her father is "a descendant of three generations of bank presidents" and worked for Merrill Lynch. At the age of 14 her family moved to Nashville where her father purchased a stake in Big Machine, which is where Taylor Swift first signed.

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