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A mum has told how she danced through contractions at Taylor Swifft's Melbourne concert on Friday night, hours before she gave birth to her daughter, Sloane Tayla.
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A mum has told how she danced through contractions at Taylor Swifft's Melbourne concert on Friday night, hours before she gave birth to her daughter, Sloane Tayla.
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