After strengthening their mother-daughter bond over their shared love forTaylor Swift, Sarah sent out a public plea for help in hopes of making her birthday an extra special one after she had a particularly tough year.
“I shared, ‘Shake it Off,’ I think was the first one with my daughter when it first came out in 2014. She was four,” she recalled. “And she would just dance and shake it off in her car seat and it’s just been a love story ever since then.”
“I just feel like as I’m getting older, I can go back and listen to her music that she made when she was struggling with the same things that I am now,” she gushed.
Taylor Swift.John Shearer/Getty
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Knowing how teenagers at her age can have it “hard,” Sarah explained that her daughter’s “struggles this past year” inspired her to reach out to strangers online. “All I wanted was to give her the best 13th birthday.”
The doting mom expected 20 cards to arrive, but was shocked when more than 250 were delivered from around the globe.
Swfities wear friendship bracelets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.Amanda Edwards/Getty
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“I just think it shows that you don’t really have to know someone for them to care about you,” she gushed.
Sarah added, “I have cried multiple times just thinking about it. I know I personally have struggled finding a community that supports me and I know that being a teenager is difficult to find a community. So I think it’s important to be able to show her what it looks like.”
source: people.com
