This episode contains discussions of disordered eating and sexual assault.

There will also be some strong language. Please be advised.

A quick note about our scenes. Some fictionalized dialogue has been added for dramatic and narrative cohesiveness.

It's the summer of 2017 and 27 year old Taylor Swift is staring wide-eyed at a single

scrambled egg, no yoke. She delicately sticks her fork in, peals off a tiny bit, and puts it in her mouth.

She savors the taste, because, let's be honest, she's starving.

And she'll be even hungrier later.

But right now, she doesn't have time to think about that.

She thinks about the full day ahead of her,

as she thumbs through a mile-long to-do list in her notes app.

Assistance swirl around Taylor's apartment, packing bags while she hurries through back-to-back phone calls.

She's super excited, trying to check things off her list as quickly as possible.

She steals a few minutes for a shower, then gets dressed.

And today's an easy day. All of this commotion is because she's getting ready for a vacation.

Two days to relax in the sun and finally let her mind calm down.

Okay, I love that she's getting a vacation, but I hate that it's only two days.

That's... I know. A weekend. We only two days. That's...

I know.

You need two days just to chill in your new location.

Exactly.

Taylor can hear her fans yelling for her from outside the building.

She starts most days by walking from her front door, directly into a waiting car,

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