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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Every Black Friday, there’s a number of viral products that everyone has on their Christmas wish list, and we don’t expect this year to be any different. However, not all of these popular items are going to stay in stock, and we have some insight on the ones that won’t. Black Friday is big business, and last year shoppers spent $222.1 billion during the entire holiday shopping season, according to Queue-it. Sales on Black Friday reached $16.4 billion (online and in stores), and this was a 9% increase from the year before. While it comes as no surprise that electronics are the most sought-after products of the holiday season, Queue-it said this accounts for the majority of holiday sales, jumping to $50.8 billion in 2023. Apparel, furniture, groceries and toys are the other hot sellers of Black Friday. 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Kathy Kelker resigns, Yellowstone County Commission to appoint a successor The Call of the Wild: Montana athletes answer with service | John Cech While many items that sell out over Black Friday are driven by a good deal, we also know that a hot product is just that — a gift that most people want to open on Christmas Day. So, here are our picks for the top 10 hot-ticket items that could sell out over Black Friday. The holidays are ripe for TV deals, and we expect shoppers to buy a ton of them in 2024, especially at Walmart. Consumers are trending toward bigger TVs and the super low-price deals over Black Friday force many models to sell out. This is especially true of popular models from Samsung, Hisense, LG and more favorites. Apple's smartwatches are a top pick among Apple fans. We’ve seen prices on the Apple Watch continue to trend downward, which was only spurred by the release of the new Apple Watch 10 in September. This pushed down prices on earlier models, with the best deals coming on the Apple Watch SE and Apple Watch 9. For Black Friday, we think the prices will drop even lower and sell out due to high demand. Wireless headphones are one of the most popular products of 2024, and Beats are one of the top brands. We’re already seeing big markdowns on Beats Wireless Headphones, and we expect these price drops to continue into Black Friday. The Beats Solo3 is likely to be on sale for even cheaper than we’ve already seen, and we think they will sell out for Black Friday, with the possibility of other popular Beats headphones joining them. If you haven’t picked up a pair of Apple AirPods yet, this could be your year to do it. With Apple launching a fourth generation of AirPods earlier this year, the price on prevvious models are creeping lower. We think over Black Friday they’ll be at their cheapest price ever, with the AirPods (3rd Gen) likely to sell out. Bluetooth speakers are a must-have for many this year, and with the big sound that comes from JBL’s speakers, it’s easy to see why they might sell out for Black Friday. These popular speakers come in a variety of portable sizes and waterproof designs. We expect big deals on JBL’s top-rated Clip 5 and Flip 6 Bluetooth speaker models. One of Apple’s most sought-after products of the year was the iPad, and we saw the 9th Gen and 10th Gen models drop to their lowest prices ever. We think this year will bring some iPad bliss with even better discounts, but these deals will disappear just as fast as they arrive. We think that mega discounts on the iPad (9th Gen) and iPad (10th Gen) could cause sell outs, especially on Amazon. The Dyson Airwrap just might be the top product of Black Friday, as this is one of the rare times there’s a discount on the beloved hair styling tool. At $600, the Airwrap carries a hefty price tag, so any discount presented is a welcome surprise. But as we’ve seen in the past, any Black Friday deal on the Dyson Airwrap causes a crush of interest that’s followed by a sell out. If you’ve tried to scoop up the UGG Tasman Slippers in previous years, you already know they never stay in stock for long. As the “it” slipper of the holiday season, UGG’s Tasman sells out multiple times over the holidays, even without a discount offered. We think that this year will be similar, with popular sizes and colors of the Tasman Slipper snatched up fast over Black Friday. The Bissell Little Green carpet cleaner is a popular home product that just can’t seem to stay in stock. With prices falling under $90, this mighty machine can be a blessing for pet owners and parents, as its compact size makes it easy to store and use when needed. We’ve seen the Little Green Machine sell out before, and we’d be surprised if it didn’t do it again over Black Friday. We’d be remiss if we didn’t include a top toy that we think will be hard to find and gift this year. Our pick is the Furby Galaxy Edition. This glow-in-the-dark Furby is based on the original Furby from the late ’90s with even more features, interactive modes and more fun. Making a comeback in 2023, we saw the revival of this popular toy sell out last year, and we expect the new Furby Galaxy Edition to do the same.With Boston College trailing defending champion Miami, Flutie threw the Hail Mary and found receiver Gerard Phalen, who made the grab while falling into the end zone behind a pair of defenders for a game-winning 48-yard TD. Flutie and many of his 1984 teammates were honored on the field during BC’s 41-21 victory over North Carolina before the second quarter on Saturday afternoon, the anniversary of the Eagles’ Miracle in Miami. “There’s no way its been 40 years,” Flutie told The Associated Press on the sideline a few minutes before he walked out with some of his former teammates to be recognized after a video of The Play was shown on the scoreboards. It’s a moment and highlight that’s not only played throughout decades of BC students and fans, but around the college football world. “What is really so humbling is that the kids 40 years later are wearing 22 jerseys, still,” Flutie said of his old number. “That amazes me.” That game was played on national TV the Friday after Thanksgiving. The ironic thing is it was originally scheduled for earlier in the season before CBS paid Rutgers to move its game against Miami, thus setting up the BC-Miami post-holiday matchup. “It shows you how random some things are, that the game was moved,” Flutie said. “The game got moved to the Friday after Thanksgiving, which was the most watched game of the year. We both end up being nationally ranked and up there. All those things lent to how big the game itself was, and made the pass and the catch that much more relevant and remembered because so many people were watching.” There’s a statue of Flutie winding up to make The Pass outside the north gates at Alumni Stadium. Fans and visitors can often be seen taking photos there. “In casual conversation, it comes up every day,” Flutie said, when asked how many times people bring it up. “It brings a smile to my face every time we talk about it.” A week after the game-ending Flutie pass, the Eagles beat Holy Cross and before he flew off to New York to accept the Heisman. They went on to win the 49th Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. “Forty years seem almost like incomprehensible,” said Phalen, also standing on the sideline a few minutes after the game started. “I always say to Doug: ‘Thank God for social media. It’s kept it alive for us.”’ Earlier this week, current BC coach Bill O’Brien, 55, was asked if he remembered where he was 40 years ago. “We were eating Thanksgiving leftovers in my family room,” he said. “My mom was saying a Rosary in the kitchen because she didn’t like Miami and wanted BC to win. 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That buzzing coming out of New Jersey? It's unclear if it's drones or something else, but for sure the nighttime sightings are producing tons of talk, a raft of conspiracy theories and craned necks looking skyward. Cropping up on local news and social media sites around Thanksgiving, reported over New Jersey has reached incredible heights. This week seems to have begun a new, higher-profile chapter: (but so far not getting) explanations from federal and state authorities about what's behind them. Gov. Phil Murphy asking for answers. New Jersey's new senator, Andy Kim, spent Thursday night on a drone hunt in rural northern New Jersey, and posted about it on X. But perhaps the most fantastic development is the dizzying proliferation of conspiracies — none of which has been confirmed or suggested by federal and state officials who say they're looking into what's happening. It has become shorthand to refer to the flying machines as drones, but there are questions about whether what people are seeing are unmanned aircraft or something else. Some theorize the drones came from an Iranian mothership. Others think they are the Secret Service making sure President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster property is secure. Others worry about China. The deep state. And on. In the face of uncertainty, people have done what they do in 2024: Create a social media group. The Facebook page, , has nearly 44,000 members, up from 39,000 late Thursday. People are posting their photo and video sightings, and the online commenters take it from there. One video shows a whitish light flying in a darkened sky, and one commenter concludes it’s otherworldly. “Straight up orbs,” the person says. Others weigh in to say it’s a plane or maybe a satellite. Another group called for hunting the drones literally, shooting them down like turkeys. (Do not shoot at anything in the sky, experts warn.) Trisha Bushey, 48, of Lebanon Township, New Jersey, lives near Round Valley Reservoir where there have been numerous sightings. She said she first posted photos online last month wondering what the objects were and became convinced they were drones when she saw how they moved and when her son showed her on a flight tracking site that no planes were around. Now she's glued to the Mystery Drones page, she said. “I find myself — instead of Christmas shopping or cleaning my house — checking it,” she said. She doesn't buy what the governor said, that Murphy told Biden on Friday that residents need answers. The federal Homeland Security Department and FBI also said in a joint statement they have no evidence that the sightings pose “a national security?or public safety?threat or have a foreign nexus.” “How can you say it’s not posing a threat if you don’t know what it is?” she said. “I think that’s why so many people are uneasy.” Then there's the notion that people could misunderstand what they're seeing. William Austin is the president of Warren County Community College, which has a drone technology degree program, and is coincidentally located in one of the sighting hotspots. Austin says he has looked at videos of purported drones and that airplanes are being misidentified as drones. He cited an optical effect called parallax, which is the apparent shift of an object when viewed from different perspectives. Austin encouraged people to download flight and drone tracker apps so they can better understand what they're looking at. Nonetheless, people continue to come up with their own theories. “It represents the United States of America in 2024,” Austin said. “We’ve lost trust in our institutions, and we need it.” Federal officials echo Austin's view that many of the sightings are piloted aircraft such as planes and helicopters being mistaken for drones, according to lawmakers and Murphy. That's not really convincing for many, though, who are homing in on the sightings beyond just New Jersey and the East Coast, where others have reported seeing the objects. For Seph Divine, 34, another member of the drone hunting group who lives in Eugene, Oregon, it feels as if it’s up to citizen sleuths to solve the mystery. He said he tries to be a voice of reason, encouraging people to fact check their information, while also asking probing questions. “My main goal is I don’t want people to be caught up in the hysteria and I also want people to not just ignore it at the same time,” he said. “Whether or not it’s foreign military or some secret access program or something otherworldly, whatever it is, all I’m saying is it’s alarming that this is happening so suddenly and so consistently for hours at a time,” he added.

Hornets' Grant Williams injures right knee late in 4th quarter in loss at MilwaukeeORONO – Holding a seven-point lead with just 2:10 remaining, the University of Maine men’s basketball team was on the verge of its ninth win in a non-conference Sunday matinee against Boston University at the Memorial Gym in Orono. But the Terriers had other ideas. UMaine never scored again and the Terriers rattled off the game’s final 10 points to earn a 59-56 victory. BU improved to 6-7 while UMaine fell to 8-7. Christopher Mantis’ 3-pointer with 2:10 remaining gave UMaine a 56-49 lead before Kyrone Alexander began the comeback with a contested 3-pointer from the left elbow off a Miles Brewster pass with 1:46 remaining. UMaine’s Kellen Tynes had his 12-foot jumper rattle in and out of the basket and Brewster grabbed the rebound and generated a fast break which resulted in an open Michael McNair hitting a three from the right corner to cut the lead to one. Tynes was fouled with 36 seconds left but missed the front end of the one-and-one and Malcolm Chimezie hauled in the rebound. Chimezie gave BU the lead for good with 20 seconds left when he took an Alexander pass and converted a contested lay-in over the front rim. “It was a high-low pass,” said senior forward Chimezie. “Ky has done a really good job all season of finding me in positions where I can score. He’s a great playmaker. He put me in a position I’m comfortable with and it worked out.” UMaine called a timeout and drew up a play but Mantis’ runner was short with three seconds left, BU grabbed the rebound and, following a video review to see if a BU player had gotten a piece of Mantis’ shot, the Terriers received the ball and Ben Palacios iced the game with two free throws after he was fouled on the inbounds pass. Sophomore guard McNair said the key down the stretch was his team was able to get stops. “We pride ourselves on getting defensive stops and then getting a good shot after that,” said McNair. “Bottom line is if you’re up seven with two minutes left, you’ve got to close it out,” said UMaine head coach Chris Markwood. “We had opportunities. We missed the front end of a one-and-one, gave up a free throw rebound and the two threes really hurt us. “Those two threes down the stretch gave them some life and they finished it out. They executed better down the stretch,” Markwood added. “We just didn’t execute what we’re supposed to do (down the stretch),” said graduate student guard Tynes. “We have to grow from it, learn from it. “I missed free throws late. If I had hit those, we would have done better. It’s on me,” said Tynes. UMaine led 27-19 at the half and BU coach Joe Jones said his team had to simplify the game in the second half and get the ball inside or drive to the basket. “We couldn’t run our offense in the first half. Maine is really tough. They do a great job defensively and they’re so well-coached. They disrupt your offense. We had to drive it in or throw it in (to the paint). And then we made some plays late to win the game,” added Jones who was “really proud” of his players for the comeback. McNair finished with 16 points, six rebounds, three assists and two steals for the Terriers. Alexander added 13 points, five rebounds and two assists and Chimezie wound up with eight points, seven rebounds and two assists. Palacios had seven points and three rebounds and Otto Landrum had a game-high eight rebounds to go with four points and two assists. Tynes paced UMaine with 17 points, four assists and three steals which were all game-highs. Mantis had 12 points and two rebounds, Quion Burns had eight points and three rebounds. Keelan Steele and A,J. Lopez each had six points and Lopez also had three assists and three rebounds. Jaden Clayton had a team-high five rebounds to go with four points, three assists and two steals. BU outrebounded UMaine 40-25 including a 10-5 edge in offensive rebounds. BU shot 59.1 percent from the floor in the second half including a 5-for-10 showing beyond the 3-point line while UMaine shot just 34.6 percent from the floor and 22.2 percent from long range over the final 20 minutes. UMaine will open America East play at Bryant (R.I.) on JKanone More articles from the BDN

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Christ is a temporal mark- After and Before Christ. For the politics in India, Manmohan Singh serves as a reference – After Him and Before Him. Christ, his christian followers believe, was crucified. The politics Manmohan Singh represented and conducted, was also crucified. His personality, his demeanour, his ideals – all this is a misfit in the new age India. Long before his departure on Thursday this week, India suffered a bereavement of a greater magnitude – death of the political leadership Manmohan Singh represented. Looking back he appears like a creature from a different planet who once was the Prime Minister of a country called India – a human prime minister. Never an accidental Prime Minister. It was good luck for India that this economist gentleman was eyed by a prescient Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao, to become the finance minister of India. He came, he saw and he liberated the Indian economy. What he also witnessed in his later years, was the devastation of Indian politics. Manmohan Singh was many things rolled in one. An academic who taught his subject at the highest level. A banker who served as the chairman of RBI. An economist who brought in radical reforms. A prime minister who made a coalition work for 10 long years, and navigated his country in such crucial matters as the Indo-US nuclear deal. Name a sector of governance, economy, politics and diplomacy where he didn’t leave an imprint. Another thing he never spoke about it. His was a person full of substance, never full of himself. He was a human being who wouldn’t scare fellow humans. So all humans of the world, it is time to mourn. That is the reason why someone like Anwar Ibrahim, from a far off land, Malaysia, is so saddened by his demise. If anyone has to take a peek into the person the Singh was, read the condolence message Anwar Ibrahim posted on X. Like him there must be hundreds, nay thousands, of hearts he must have touched. A superficial knowledge of states and governments tell us that it is the system that matters in the end. No matter who rules, no matter who is in the chair, it is the national interest and the state policy that finally holds the key. But that is not the entire truth. The person at the top informs everything down under. India just observed 100th anniversary of A B Vajpayee. Wasn’t there something in the man that we had a different political atmosphere? He belonged to an ideological politics that was different from Manmohan’s. But he shared the grace and magnanimity in his person with Manmohan Singh. That is why he was, and is, praised by people across party and ideological divides. Manmohan Singh was gentle and calm, graceful and profound, honest and efficient; the strength of his personality was in his humility. Unfortunately, these traits are no longer in demand. The times have changed. The choices have changed. Now is the time for leaders who can inflict fear in others, who can cast a spell of madness on a rabble, who can raise rhetoric to Himalayan heights, who can bring skies down and turn the earth upside down. Manmohan Singh, by his very disposition brought ease and calm; on the contrary. In the din of today’s politics, who can match the reserves of calm the frail body of Manmohan Singh carried. He had a glacial personality, today’s politics needs volcanic eruption. Now that the man is no more, we see everyone in India, and beyond, praise him. But it still pains to think of the occasions when the Indian media made deprecating remarks about him, and the political opponents added to the toxicity. A man of great character was subjected to the smallness of politics that India spewed after he was no longer in the seat. In his maiden budget speech in 1991, Singh quoted Victor Hugo: “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.” He had rightly sensed it then. He brought the Indian economy on the global map. That was the time Manmohan Singh was brought into the politics of India. When his political party lost power, the time for some really ghastly ideas came. Victor Hugo’s quote was applicable then, and is applicable now. Unfortunately, it looks like Indian politics and the Indian society are bursting with ideas that change the very image of an ideal man. Manmohan Singh, even Vajpayee, don’t fit that image. The tragic in the times after Manmohan Singh is that Manmohan Singh is no longer an image of an ideal statesman. How could he live more?

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Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen returns to a tournament after a dispute over jeans is resolvedAt this point, it’s easy to recite the statistics of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which wrapped up for good on Sunday night in Vancouver, British Columbia: 149 sold-out stadium shows on five continents. Local economies boosted by millions of dollars. The first billion-dollar grossing tour in history (earning more than $2 billion total, according to the New York Times). One massive Ticketmaster meltdown during the presale, with an executive later explaining that the demand for tickets could have filled 900 stadiums. The harder task is trying to explain why. Why, of all tours, did this one become a cultural phenomenon, where every single concert made headlines? Why did fans devote so many nights to watching shaky iPhone footage of the 31⁄2-hour concert? Or as naysayers wondered, why did people spend thousands of dollars to fly around the world to attend a meticulously choreographed show that was virtually the same every time, aside from the costume variations and surprise songs? What was it about the Eras Tour? It’s simple to point to Swift’s much-discussed intense relationship with her fan base, or the success of her music, with its ultimate relatable themes about growing up and life and love, or the fact that she hadn’t toured in five years; but in reality, the reasons go deeper. The Washington Post went straight to the people who know best – the ones who attended the shows, who watched the live streams, who read the endless stories about the tour published since it started in March 2023. We asked: What did the Eras Tour mean to you? We received nearly 600 responses and, most illuminatingly, the answers spanned generations. (Some responses have been slightly edited for length and punctuation.) PRETEENS “It meant everything to me because I’ve been dying to go see Taylor Swift since I was 5 years old. I am inspired by her music and her as a person. I think she’s done amazing things to this world.” – Josey Preiss, age 8 One reason Swift’s gargantuan fan base continues to grow is that she has spent the past 18 years forming an intense bond with her fans. She makes them feel like her friends, then those listeners play Swift’s music for their kids, and the fandom just keeps multiplying. Young Swifties told The Post they learned to love her songs from their older siblings and parents (one reported that her mom started playing “Shake It Off” for her when she was an infant) and loved the tradition of trading friendship bracelets with other concertgoers. TEENS “The Eras Tour meant to me a place of whimsy and celebration. ... It meant being able to see the woman onstage who got me through the hardest and most fun parts of my life without even knowing it.” – Stephanie Woodie, age 19 Swift broke out as a country music star in the early 2000s by writing songs about what it was like to be a teenage girl, and her lyrics still resonate deeply with those in middle school, high school and beyond. Teens described Swift as a hero and a role model, and they said the concerts felt like a bonding experience in which, no matter what you had been through, you were surrounded by tens of thousands of people who were feeling the same sense of joy. 20s “It was my entire childhood wrapped into the best 3.5 hours. There is truly nothing better than screaming the songs that got me through the teenage heartbreak that I thought I’d never move on from or the feeling of falling in love for the first time. ... The Eras Tour was a sense of nostalgia, magic, new friendships and a feeling of being understood.” – Andi Morris, 28 The concert celebrated each “era” of Swift’s career, and her fans said that inspired them to think about their own journeys. As Margot Hughes Pavone, 29, told The Post, “There comes a time in every girl’s life, so early on we can’t even pinpoint it, when we’re told ... that the girly things we’ve grown to love aren’t cool anymore.” One of those subliminal messages is that bubblegum pop music is shallow, she said, so as they get older, girls often turn to music that is considered “cooler.” Swift taps into how your 20s shape your identity (the song “22” marvels at being “happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time”), and Pavone said that attending the concert was like “therapy” for her younger selves. “At the Eras Tour, we all embraced the girls inside us, because instead of shaming them and telling them how dumb and uncool and embarrassing they were, Taylor told them they were all right. ... That what they went through was real and valid, not cringey or shameful, but worth singing and dancing and laughing and crying about.” Other women echoed the sentiment: “The Eras Tour to me meant a chance to unapologetically celebrate girlhood! For the first time in a long time, it felt like girls and women were given a venue to come together and be ourselves without being ridiculed,” said Katie Michalak, 25. “Taylor has sung about so many things myself and so many other women have felt, and because of her we can feel seen in a world that doesn’t want to acknowledge our value,” added Christine Brown, 22. The shows also helped people who were going through upheaval in their lives. Florencia Maggio, 24, told The Post that during the time span of the tour, which she saw multiple times around the world, her marriage started to unravel. “Every concert I attended, every city I traveled to, became a way to reflect on who I was, who I had been, and who I was becoming,” she said. “The moments of joy I shared with strangers in stadiums, the quiet moments of reflection while alone in a new city, and the deep, powerful sense of fulfillment when I stood in those concert crowds – it all served as milestones in my personal healing process.” 30s “The Eras Tour reminded me it is not silly to want to get dressed up and like sparkly things and to cherish girlhood. Which may sound trivial, but in a world where I felt like I’ve had to bury those parts of me to be taken seriously, it reminded me of the beauty of duality. ... And that was an incredibly potent lesson I needed and wouldn’t have seen without this tour, to accept all the intricate sides of yourself and allow yourself joy for the sake of joy.” – Sydney LoPrimo, 30 Swift pours detail into her songs (training fans to look for “Easter eggs” and clues within her work) and her concerts (with specific costume combinations and different acoustic medleys each night), and for that reason, the tour became an all-consuming experience online for many Swifties even after they had attended in person. “It’s hard to explain the joy that the Eras Tour has brought to my life. I never thought I’d be watching live concerts from terrible livestreams on TikTok each weekend – but I did, on repeat, joyfully texting my friend about the surprise songs, outfit choices, ‘errors tour’ moments,” said Cherisse Onderko, 37. “Female empowerment, love and acceptance of all people, joy in doing things you love ... so sad this is about to be over.” This was particularly important to fans who were experiencing personal challenges. Many found great happiness and distraction as much in the glittery costumes as the cathartic pop songs. “I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer just a few weeks before I was supposed to move across the country and start my dream job. Through six months of chemotherapy in my hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, I woke up each morning anxious with anticipation of what the next grainy live stream would reveal,” said Molly McMillan, 33. “The Eras Tour was the soundtrack to the montage of me beating cancer.” Lacey Quadrelli, 35, told The Post that she attended in New Orleans on the third anniversary of her Stage 3 cancer diagnosis, and that “being there meant replacing one of the worst days of my 35 years with one of the happiest. I got to feel intense joy and have truly not felt more alive than when belting out the bridge to ‘Cruel Summer’ with 63K of the best people I haven’t fully met.” Carmen Kaarid, 30, called the tour a “truly life-changing event” after being a Swift fan since middle school. “My husband and I had been trying to have a baby for over a year and had just suffered another failed fertility cycle a few days before my show. Being able to lose myself in Taylor’s music was a saving grace for me in what was one of the darkest periods of my life,” she said. By the second time she saw the show, she was the mom of a 5-month-old baby. “Seeing Taylor during both my lowest lows and my highest highs made the journey all the more unforgettable.” 40s “It’s also meant so much to me as a middle-aged woman! ... Covid and subsequent world events have been so difficult, having a shining and beautiful thing like the Eras Tour and her music releases ... have given me something to look forward to, to brighten my days.” – Suzy Berberian, 47 While many people told The Post that the show represented a safe place to indulge in celebrating girlhood, others found hope and healing in seeing so many different people at the tour. “The kindness is contagious. Everywhere you look, something special is happening. The father/daughter dynamic is what touches me. But it’s everyone: moms/children, siblings, strangers, best friends, bf/gfs, husbands/wives, everyone has this shared love and appreciation for her music that spans across the most monumental moments of our lives,” Nicholas Xouris, 40, told The Post. “The Eras Tour entered my life when I needed it most, becoming a source of healing and connection in the wake of profound loss. After losing my mother to pancreatic cancer in February, 2023, I was consumed by grief and almost skipped my first show in Pittsburgh in June,” said Amy Johnson, 43. But the show became a source of healing: “The stadium pulsed with energy as we screamed the bridge of ‘Cruel Summer.’ During ‘Marjorie,’ I let my grief for my mom pour out in tears, and during ‘Lover,’ I felt hope for the LGBTQ community as Taylor’s dancers swayed as same-sex couples onstage. ... The love, hope, and safeness in that stadium were indescribable.” Zerene Gurian, 44, said the tour “remained a constant” during difficult times, including “a very, very stressful year of politics and now being scared for my future, and for the future for all of us that aren’t a cis White man.” “There were thousands of memes, GIFs, and posts on Instagram that were so relatable to me and all Swifties,” she said. “It’s been a constant source of joy, happiness, love and laughter. Community and friendship, equality and support.” 50s “I went to the show with my two teenage daughters. Like a lot of dads of Swifties, I didn’t know much about Taylor Swift ahead of time, but I relished the chance to have something special to share with them at an age when kids typically pull away from their parents. ... It literally brought a tear to my eye. I don’t really know why. Maybe it was because it was just incredible to be able to be there in the stadium with them, and you never know how many of those opportunities you’re going to get.” – Cale Jaffe, 52 People a couple decades older than Swift, who turns 35 on Dec. 13, wrote in to say that they didn’t know that they would relate to Swift’s music as much as they did, and some spoke of how special it was to be able to go to the show with their kids or younger family members. Others were delighted to find they were welcomed along with everyone else. “I’m what you’d describe as an ‘aging hipster,’ much to my chagrin. I’m a die-hard Indie/folk/prog fan, with a quiet love for well-crafted pop music,” said Alexandra Kogan, 54. “That quiet love really got me through the pandemic, where my nearly daily grocery store visits were supplemented by quietly singing along under my mask to Taylor Swift songs.” When Kogan got tickets with an “aging Goth” friend in Los Angeles, she wasn’t sure what to expect. “We both joked on the way to the show that we’d be the oldest people there. Shockingly, we weren’t – and that’s ultimately what the Eras Tour was for me,” she said. “We were enveloped in an ocean of all-ages/all-gender/all-orientation fellow Swifties, who all got our outfits (and even gave us compliments). We arrived bare-wristed and left with more friendship bracelets than I could count ... I will treasure these memories just like the music that got me through the pandemic; and I am not just an aging hipster anymore ... I’m a proud Swiftie!” 60s “Attended [in Seattle] on my 65th birthday with my 2 daughters (27 & 33), in July of 2023 – our first foray into a huge crowded space since the pandemic. It felt like freedom and community, positivity, and hope. ... I’ve been to many concerts since my teenage years, but I left this one feeling lucky to have experienced a one-of-a-kind event in my lifetime. Was grateful to share this with my girls.” – Cyndee Lord, 66 Multiple respondents in their 60s compared the hype around Swift to Beatlemania – and were pleasantly surprised by how much they enjoyed the show, particularly when they accompanied young concertgoers. Some were especially impressed by the scope of the tour, and how even in a stadium show, Swift has the ability to make it feel like she’s talking right to you. 70+ “Our niece and her 8-year-old daughter met us in New Orleans for the show. It was the little girl’s first concert (of course she is a huge fan). Seeing the world through her eyes for a moment was forever memorable.” – Rob Brenner, 71 Some age 70 and older said that they did not attend the tour, but read plenty about it as it took over the news cycle. Earl Rose, 88, wrote in to say, “My husband is besotted with Swift and her romantic life. I am indifferent. But in the light of all the publicity attendant to her engagement and all, she and her tour have become a daily staple of conversation. I was/am forced to figure what all the fuss is about.” “First, she is a great entertainer. I do remember her early videos. Second, she is a business woman with some great talent to bottle her appearances and albums and keep them fizzy and current and very very profitable. I’m a retired entrepreneur. Gotta admire that,” Rose continued, adding that he also admires how much her parents have supported her. Even as the tour concludes, Swift continues to fascinate fans and non-fans of all ages. 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