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Swift, 34, was preparing to play her Eras Tour gigs in Madrid on
Wednesday and Thursday, Santos, who runs a dental prosthetics
lab in Spain's capital, solemnly displayed the items, including
Swift's limited-edition platinum disk award, signed photos,
recordings, and sneakers bearing both their names.
"Sometimes I wake up at night, turn on the light and look a
little, and say to myself: 'What are you doing?'... I just look,
it gives me calm, and I go back to sleep," Santos said in an
interview.
"For me she means everything; I've been following her since
before 2011... I had the gut feeling that she was going to be
big. If I had the same intuition with the lottery, I'd be rich,"
Santos said.
He said going to see her perform in Dublin in 2018 made him the
only person to have travelled twice from Spain for a Swift show.
Her management team then added Santos and his wife Inmaculada to
an exclusive fan list, and sent them gifts and invitations,
including an all-paid trip to Los Angeles last year, Santos
said.
"If I was 18 or 20, I imagine I could go a bit crazy... but now
everything feels more mature and calm," said Santos, who has
Swift-themed tattoos on his arms and ankle.
He has yet to meet her in person. A planned meeting in Oslo was
cancelled due to the pandemic.
Santos is particularly thankful to Swift and her team for
thinking about older fans, and for "the values she has
transmitted" through her art.
Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour has boosted local economies.
In Madrid, hotel occupancy rates have climbed to 90% on average
for the concert dates.
(Reporting by Miguel Gutiérrez, Corina Pons and Michael Gore;
writing by Andrei Khalip; editing by David Latona and Jonathan
Oatis)
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