Taylor Swift sends superfan $1,989 for student loans

Cindy Clark | USA TODAY

Taylor Swift, do-gooder, strikes again!

The superstar singer made one fan's day recently when she sent over a package with a watercolor painted by Swift, a necklace and a check for $1,989. The sum is a reference to her chart-topping album, 1989, and it's meant to go toward paying off superfan Rebekah Bortniker's student loans.

Bortniker posted a video on YouTube that shows her opening her package from Swift, which was delivered by Swift's bodyguard to Bortniker's home. The FedEx box that it came in had "Fed" crossed out and "SWIFT" written in. It was sent as a gesture of thanks and support after Swift saw a mash-up video that Bortniker had posted on Jan. 9 of the singer and her girlfriends, set to the theme song of Friends.

"Hi you! I was thinking about you today and how you've been there cheering me on in the most thoughtful and creative ways," Swift wrote in a card that came inside the package. "I really really really really hope you like it. I'm not a good painter but I think you're so beautiful and positive, even though you're dealing with the stress life brings, so I wanted to make you something."

Bortniker also shared photos of her gifts on Twitter:

Alongside the video of her opening the gifts, Bortniker wrote:

"I was so nervous I couldn't even read the letter and totally butchered it. I was just in such shock that Taylor had taken her time to think about me and send me something. I still don't think I've really processed it all, I feel like I'm just in this crazy dream. I couldn't even form words when I opened everything, luckily my mom took a minute to thank Taylor for me.

"Taylor, thank you, thank you, thank you. I know I've said it and I'll probably say it a million more times because this means more to me than you could imagine, I love you!"



Swift responded, "I love you so much."

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