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Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Christ with coffee on ice. I am your host,

Ali Yost. It is a joy and honor to be here with you guys today.

Happy Friday, everybody. I am so excited for today's episode. And this episode was inspired actually by a

TikTok that I posted. And it was so funny because I woke up one morning and I was just thinking about what it was like

to be 22. And I don't know what got me there. I don't know if I had like seen a video on my phone

of like a sweet 22 year old girl and I'm like, oh my gosh, the things I would do. But I just feel

like I have finally hit an age. If you guys don't know, I'm 30 years old now, which is insane to me, because I don't feel it. And it's so funny because you hear those things about people, or you like, you hear those things from people who are older than us. Like you, oh, you hear the like, oh, I'm this age and I don't even feel it. Or I still feel like I'm, you know, 18, or it feels like I'm still 23 years old or like the

things I would do differently, you know, like you hear those things from people who are older

than us all the time. And I don't know if it's just being naive. I don't know if it's just being

confident in the now. But like, I just think for a long time, I don't know,

I just never thought about the fact that I would also feel the same way one day. And now that I'm 30 years

old, I've been 30 for a few months. It's not like I didn't just turn 30. But I don't know,

now that I'm like in my 30s, very, very early beginning stages of my 30s,

it's like that there's a decade that is now fully behind me. Like it's done. There is no redeeming it.

There is no doing things differently. Like my 20s have a stamp on them. And they're like,

and this was Allie's 20s.

And it's over, which is crazy.

And so I think that that's why I woke up kind of feeling that way and just like reflecting

and being like, wow, my 20s are like, that's it.

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