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She previously shared that she wrote much of the album while she was pregnant with Gus and didn't finish making the record until after her son had arrived. She said it's \"very weird and unexpected and beautiful\" to perform the songs that she wrote while pregnant with Gus now, while pregnant with her second.

\"It's really strange to be pregnant on the road and singing the songs that I wrote the majority of while I was pregnant with his brother,\" she said. \"I think it'll make for a fun story one day to be able to tell him, like, your brother was on the road with us -- he has no recollection, he remembers nothing of it.\"

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Performing such a vulnerable project for her fans and getting to connect with them in person is also something that excites Moore, she shared.

\"I'm in such a different chapter of my life -- it's so exciting to sort of meet the audience where they are,\" she explained. \"And I already ... four or five shows in have sort of felt this deep connection with people looking in the front row, like, 'Oh, I think we've grown up together, I think we've been on this journey together.'\"

\"So it feels really special to be able to share what's happening in my life -- what's been happening for the last couple of years with folks in an intimate, vulnerable setting,\" she continued.

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Along with songs from the new album, Moore said she's also \"really excited\" to break out some of her hits from the past during the tour.

\"I think up until this moment and this opportunity to play these songs, I've really made great strides in my life to distance myself from them, to dismiss stuff that I've done in the past, because I didn't have the creative control, I didn't write them, I didn't feel as intrinsically involved and linked to them,\" she said.

\"And I've realized over time, I'm diminishing myself and other people who enjoy those songs,\" she continued. \"And they're the reason I'm here today -- part of the reason -- and so I've really sort of come full circle and I have a lot of appreciation and gratitude for that teenage version of myself but also those songs and what they've meant to me and my career and where they've sort of taken me.\"

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She said that she sees how her fans connect to these hits and doesn't want to take away from that.

\"I look out in the crowd and I recognize that people feel connected to them as well, and I don't want to dismiss that. It's not up to me to do that,\" she said. \"So it's fun to sort of like reclaim those songs in a way while being on the road.\"

One of the hits fans will be excited to hear she's performing is \"Only Hope\" from her 2002 romantic drama \"A Walk To Remember.\"

\"There's nothing better than looking out and seeing a sea of people sing along with you, and that song always seems to check that box,\" she said.

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