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‘It Made Me Believe That Love Wasn’t Real Anymore. And I Puked.’
Swifties on Cornelia Street took the Joe Alwyn breakup news as well as you’d expect.
It’s 2 p.m. on Monday afternoon, and I am solemnly approaching 23 Cornelia Street, a previously purple West Village carriage house that Taylor Swift rented in 2016 while her $50 million Tribeca condo underwent renovations, during which she paid $45,000 per month for three bedrooms and one indoor pool and after which she wrote the song “Cornelia Street,” widely believed to be about her longtime lover Joe Alwyn, with whom she allegedly severed ties over the weekend, throwing her devoted fan base into varying degrees of agony, conspiracy theorizing, and meme-making. On this sunny weekday afternoon, the area isn’t quite swarmed, but it is consistently occupied with a new group of fans and an increasing stream of local journalists arriving every few minutes, incidentally obstructing traffic and drawing forlorn looks from the neighbors. People were checking in on me because I wasn’t responding to anyone.Giselle, 14, begged her mom to drive her here from New Jersey so she could drop leftover Easter flowers in front of the house (“I didn’t think he would mind,” says her mother, referring to Jesus Christ).
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