Hey y'all. Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks 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 a coming out story?

Folks, today we are doing only our second ever returning guest.

This is something we have spoken about wanting to do in the past because we've been doing

the podcast for over three years now.

And the thing that we're always saying is, you know, like people evolve and who knows what you'll be like an X number of years and everything's fluid.

And so it feels like if we don't follow up with past guests, that's just lip service.

We want to actually see in real time some of our guests who have changed perhaps the way they identify or life

situations.

So we are joined today by a very early guest from episode nine back when we were in

Nicole's tiny, very warm closet.

Episode nine guest

Lauren Ludwig is here with us

hi

you just brought me back to that

closet we were in

oh my God

I just remembered when you walked into my house

for the first time and it's so funny

like because in the time since, everybody,

Lauren and I have all have become friends and worked together. And so I'm like, man, that was

when we met. It was when you walked into my house. And I was like, let me show you my closet.

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