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A few moments before launching into “Champagne Problems”’ melancholic first few chords on her moss-covered grand piano, Taylor Swift broke the witchy spell she’d so far conjured during the Evermore segment of her Eras Tour to express her gratitude — something she did a lot over the course of the show and always with the long-trademark can-you-believe-this-is-happening delight you’re surprised still comes across as genuine. “This has been the most magical experience of my entire life,” she said of her new tour in front of the crowd that had packed Lumen Field on Saturday night to see her. “I’m not even being hyperbolic.” 

After sitting through the more than three-hour-long show — in which Swift, true to the tour’s title, inexhaustibly marathoned through most of the highs of each of her albums save for her self-titled 2006 debut — it seemed unlikely that there would be anyone among the historic 72,000-ish audience members that could make it to the end, even the quarter mark, not declaring something basically identical themselves.

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