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A 9-year-old girl can't believe she's going to see Donald Trump in person.

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Some 9-year-olds love Taylor Swift. Some love Vine star Shawn Mendes.

And at least one 9-year-old, a girl from Maine, loves Donald Trump.

Many Americans are drawn to the 69-year-old Republican front-runner's swagger and his tough talk on immigration, Muslims and ISIS. But a YouTube video of a charming young girl reminds us of Trump's original appeal: he's a larger-than-life celebrity, the Big Daddy of reality-TV stars.

"Oh my God!" the girl shrieks in shock when her mother tells her they're going to go see Trump in New Hampshire.

"Do you want to meet him?" her mother asks."Tell Mr. Trump you want to meet him."

The overwhelmed girl begins to cry tears of joy. "I love you, Trump!" she exclaims.

Her reaction is nothing new, of course. Celebrity, whether coming from the movies, politics or Vine, is a form of contagion, say Yale psychologists George Newman and Paul Bloom. "Contagion is a form of magical thinking in which people believe that a person's immaterial qualities or essence can be transferred to an object through physical contact," they wrote in a 2014 study.

No wonder Trump's rallies are always so packed. Watch video of the young Trump fan below.

H/t: The Independent