Few expected Taylor Swift to appear at the funeral of Portuguese footballer Diogo Jota. Fewer still were prepared for the reason she came. Amid the quiet of the cathedral, Taylor and Ed Sheeran delivered a stripped-down, aching version of “Exile”, their haunting duet about distance, grief, and memory. But before the first note, Taylor stepped forward and spoke — her voice shaking slightly: “I didn’t know him personally. But in 2018, during my ‘Reputation’ tour, I made a playlist public. A few days later, he reposted it. His caption read: ‘You can fight like hell and still have heartbreak on repeat.’” *“I knew from that moment,” she said
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