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As Cressy drove up the street, Daryl Gross stopped to talk with her neighbor whom she didn’t quite know on a first-name basis.

Tom Girardi was on a first-name basis with senators from California to North Carolina.

He was soon on a first-name basis with then-Galaxy coach Sigi Schmid.

“They’re on a first-name basis and know their pets and family members. It’s easier to advise on complex conditions and provide the care they need versus a transactional experience.”

Many Swift songs get lost in dense thickets of their own vocabulary, but here the goofy particularity of the lyrics — chocolate bars, first-name nods to friends, a reference to the pop songwriter Charlie Puth?! — is strangely humanizing.