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" \nTaylor Swift is browsing a small guitar shop in the industrial-turned-hip Edgehill neighborhood of Nashville, her hometown. Hair swept up in a pretty ponytail and wearing a mustard yellow below-the-knee pleated skirt, a crisp white button-down shirt, and sea-foam green cat-eye sunglasses, she looks like she just stepped out of the French film Am\u00E9lie. She seems relaxed and at home, glancing at the acoustics and making small talk with the bearded, jeans- clad owner about the cool art prints of Elvis and Johnny Cash hanging on the wall. As we&amp;#039;re about to leave, he says, &amp;quot;I just have to ask\u2026are you...?&amp;quot; Taylor smiles and breezily replies &amp;quot;yes.&amp;quot; Even in Nashville, where country-music stars are a common sight, he can&amp;#039;t resist asking for a photo, but Taylor politely explains that she&amp;#039;s in the middle of an interview and slips out the door. It&amp;#039;s late afternoon, and we walk across a stone alleyway to a low-key pizza place, where we sit outside at a green plastic table and Taylor orders a small margherita pie and an iced tea. For two hours, she enjoys relative anonymity with only two middle-aged men stopping briefly at our table\u2014dads wanting autographs for teen daughters. Taylor signs their scraps of paper with a friendly but quick &amp;quot;Here you go!&amp;quot; One passing fan, who looks about 13 years old, glances excitedly at Taylor, who gives her a smile, but the girl&amp;#039;s parents keep her from stopping. As 2012&amp;#039;s highest paid musical performer and the winner of six Grammys (and countless other music awards), Taylor is nothing short of a teenage icon. But with her growing fame and fortune, her life keeps moving further and further away from the teen audience that made her a star\u2026 although she&amp;#039;s trying as hard as she can to remain their patron saint. Ask her what makes her happy, and she immediately rattles off a long, G-rated list of favorite things: cats, oceans, hydrangea flowers, arts and crafts, blankets, fireplaces, changing seasons\u2026 She&amp;#039;s not lying\u2014it&amp;#039;s just that at this point you might think running a $57 million brand, taking the red carpet by storm in the latest designer clothes, performing in front of stadiums packed with screaming fans, and getting romantic with a Kennedy might edge out writing notes and people with green eyes (both also on her list) on her thrill meter.  Yet the childlike surprise and excitement that Taylor expresses so often\u2014gently parodied by Kristen Wiig on SNL and Blake Shelton at the ACM awards\u2014 seems completely genuine in person. Taylor talks about her achievements as if they are happening in the context of a wildly improbable dream\u2014one from which she might wake at any moment. And now she&amp;#039;s added being a part of American royalty into her dream life. A longtime fan of the Kennedy clan, Taylor said last year that she was &amp;quot;obsessed with the history of JFK&amp;quot; and had devoured a 900-page book called The Kennedy Women. And in the seemingly enchanted world of Taylor: What Taylor wants, Taylor gets. In a few short years, she&amp;#039;s become a part of the family\u2014even her icon, Ethel, the family matriarch, has remarked that her grandson Conor, 18, would be lucky to marry her. Taylor didn&amp;#039;t discuss her latest boyfriend (they&amp;#039;ve allegedly just split), but all you have to do is read between the lines and lyrics. There may be a happily ever after on the horizon\u2014 certainly, she&amp;#039;s dreamed about it. Cosmo: Of all the lyrics on your new album, Red, which resonates the most with you at the moment?  Taylor:  I have a chalkboard in my house in L.A., and every week, I&amp;#039;ve been writing a new lyric on it from the record just to figure out which ones pop out to me, which seem most important. There&amp;#039;s a song that&amp;#039;s the first track on the record, and it says, &amp;quot;Love is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s been my whole philosophy on love this whole time anyway.  Cosmo: What about the playing-hard-to-get game?  Taylor: I think a lot of times when you meet someone you feel like you need to appear like you&amp;#039;re not interested in them so that they&amp;#039;ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What&amp;#039;s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don&amp;#039;t want to sign up for that.  Cosmo: Are there other moves you won&amp;#039;t tolerate?  Taylor: I can&amp;#039;t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It&amp;#039;s a conscious thing; it&amp;#039;s a common-sense thing. If I was in that situation, if I were them, would I be doing this to me? Would I ever do this to them? If the answer is no, then they&amp;#039;re not treating me fairly. I just don&amp;#039;t ever want to end up in a relationship that isn&amp;#039;t fair ever again.  For more of Taylor&amp;#039;s exclusive interview with Cosmopolitan pick up the new issue on newsstands Nov. 6. BONUS: Did you know you can get your monthly issue of Cosmo on your e-reader? It&amp;#039;s the same issue you&amp;#039;d buy on the newsstand, but you can flip through it with the touch of your finger. Touch your device below to download. You&amp;#039;ll be reading your favorite magazine in just minutes. Have a Kindle? Touch here. Have a NOOK? Touch here. Have an iPad? Touch here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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