Terry and CJ Smith

We are a team that has been happily worked together for almost 50 years on small ranch &raised 4 children. Our love is always 1st.

Placed 36th

in their group

We would like to thank you for supporting Terry and CJ Smith in this year's competition. Your participation allows us to aid both the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Oceana in their respective missions to support hunger relief and ocean conservation.

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How did your love story begin?

We meet in highschool 1970 went went out my senior year March 1973, he took me to a friends house for a party but no party. We sat and chatted for a couple of hours. We have been together ever since. CJ asked me to marry him 11/21)1973 in his 1967 Shelby 500 the rest is history. Been in love for 53 years . We wake up every morning finding a new way to love each other . We started as friends. Now we are each others best friends, loves and soulmates.

What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?

Over 50 years there has been so many. But I think it was holding hands on the beach in Santa Cruz CA, watching the sun set on your honeymoon. Then dinner in a little Italian sea side restaurant.

What would you do with $20,000?

For your 50 th we want to have your wedding party and kids and grandkids here with us to renew our values here on our small ranch. And then a family trip to Alaska. We have 3 living children, 3 grandkids, .( We lost our oldest daughter in Feb of 2022,) and all the partners of my family . Would a great trip for us

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