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(NewsNation) — Taylor Swift is going back to basics.

After being dragged into the “It Ends With Us” legal mess by her former BFF, Blake Lively, Swift is done with the drama and surrounding herself with familiar faces she not only trusts but knows won’t get their mess on her.

In just the last week, Swift celebrated buying back her masters with Selena Gomez at the Monkey Bar in midtown and also hung out with recently single Dakota Johnson— who had just broken

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