Hey y'all. So we just wanted to give you a little trigger warning up top on this episode.

There is, there are mentions of abuse in this episode. It's not horribly explicit or anything,

but you know, in case that's something that feels like a trigger to you and you would rather skip

this episode, we are okay with that and wanted to give you the option.

If you're still hanging in, though, man, it is a good episode. And we do talk about some stuff that

I brought up about gender issues from episode 110 that some of y'all resonated with and some

of y'all had a lot of problems with.

So if that sounds appealing to you and you are okay with foregoing the trigger warning,

we will see you soon in a few minutes as I peter off here and we go into the actual episode.

Okay, bye.

Music I peter off here and we go into the actual episode. Okay, bye. Hey, y'all.

Hi.

Welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole.

We are a weekly podcast where we have queer folks on from all walks of life.

They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.

Because who doesn't love the coming out story?

We also talk about new and topical things, but we haven't figured out a way to incorporate

that into our opening yet.

We haven't.

So here is us telling you that's what you can expect. Yay. Seameless. Seamless. So today, I'm so excited to have Jessica Lillibow with us. Jessica is a listener. And we've been in touch actually for a few months but got back in touch and had

an awesome conversation the other night regarding the podcast actually and she has such an

interesting story and also had really wonderful and helpful thoughts on the new format of the podcast and certain things that came up.

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