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It should be an actual crime that people don’t appreciate dear reader more. That song is everything that Taylor has been trying to tell us about herself and it is the epitome of traumatised daughter who was a gifted child but can no longer seek help and can’t let anyone in trope. Dear reader is my bible 😭😭🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

The line in anti-hero “did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism” is basically her describing Dear Reader in a way. The altruism being the first two verses where she’s advising the “reader” and the bridge being the the “covert narcissism” where she explains how she is essentially just pleading for help