Toward the end of Taylor Swift's appearance on Wednesday's "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the host retrieved a photo from behind his desk and held it up for his studio and TV audiences to see.

The image showed a 12-year-old Swift standing on the basketball court at what was then the First Union Center, holding a microphone and singing the national anthem before the 76ers game on April 5, 2002. She's wearing a duster cardigan over a sparkly American flag top with a red headband holding back her blonde hair.

Swift, who turns 36 on Saturday, studied the photo for a couple seconds.

"You know when you're like 11 and you've got that one outfit that you just know ... goes so hard?" Swift said. "... Where you just know that when you put this on you're like, I'm sorry, I'm unstoppable today."

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