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Fact: No one is as good at being Taylor Swift as Taylor Swift. She is the girl who always packs snacks. She wakes up among cats and claps enthusiastically at everything. So it is of little surprise that when Taylor Swift rides in a car with friends and Faith Hill's song This Kiss, begins to play, she is 100-percent Taylor Swift, yellow Gatorade bottle microphone and all.