• baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    10 months ago

    According to wikipedia:

    Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989,[1] in West Reading, Pennsylvania.[2] She is named after singer-songwriter James Taylor.[3] Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a former stockbroker for Merrill Lynch[4] and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), is a former homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive.[5] Taylor has a younger brother, actor Austin Swift.[6]

    Not an emerald mine, but at least upper middle class.

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        10 months ago

        Hum, that is not what wikipedia says:

        Carl Moyes was a truck driver hauling produce for C.R. England in the 1940s out of northern Utah.[4] In the late 1950s Betty and Carl Moyes started a small trucking company in Plain City, Utah, B & C Truck Leasing. After their son, Jerry, graduated from Weber State University in 1966, they moved the small company to Phoenix, Arizona. Carl and his two sons, Ronald and Jerry (vice-president), formed the company Common Market in Arizona, that would become Swift.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Transportation

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          10 months ago

          Yep, you’re right. I was lied to by a friend.

          I think I need to stop trusting them with factual tidbits.