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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: The Stonewall Riots were described as a “a long night of at least a dozen retreats and returns.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/us/revisiting-stonewall-memories-history.html

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<aside> ➕ See also: Waiting/Long Time Coming/20 Year Dark Night/”A Long Time”/Patience Sleeping/Asleep

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

• Dear John: Long were the nights when my days once revolved around you

Red (October 22, 2012)

1989 (October 27, 2014)

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• Delicate - Long night with your hands up in my hair

Lover (August 23, 2019)

• Paper Rings -
  • Kiss me once 'cause you know I had a long night
  • Kiss you once 'cause I know you had a long night
• Daylight: I’ve been sleeping so long in a twenty-year dark night

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evermore (December 11, 2020)