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Taylor Swift makes tearful 21-minute speech as she joins Songwriters Hall of Fame
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- Her family uprooted from Pennsylvania to Nashville when she was 14 "so that I could hone my craft in the songwriting capital of the world", she said at the New York ceremony.
- "It couldn't have been easy for my parents and my brother to just pick up and move our entire family," she said.
- "Even though words are supposed to kind of be my thing, I will never be able to express my gratitude to you guys for doing that for me.
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Helen Bushby Culture reporter Getty Images Taylor Swift thanked their family for moving from Pennsylvania to Nashville to help her early career Taylor Swift made an emotional 21-minute speech in which she tearfully thanked her family as she made history by becoming the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Her family uprooted from Pennsylvania to Nashville when she was 14 "so that I could hone my craft in the songwriting capital of the world", she said at the New York ceremony.
"It couldn't have been easy for my parents and my brother to just pick up and move our entire family," she said.
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