Erik and carita dickson

We high school sweeties that have been together for 37 years and married for 31. He support each other and even go to each others students.

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Voting for the TOP 20 ends Thursday the 16th of July at 7PM PDT

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How did your love story begin?

We met at our high school library. I was meeting my friend gabby and he k ew her and came in to say hi. I went on date with him just for fun when he basked me. He was known as a player and had multiple girls he went out with. We went in our date and after that he broke up with all the girls and only wanted to go out with me. I was u aware of that at the moment. We went on several other dates and after a highschool picnic with the choir and drama club he asked me to be his girlfriend.

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

There is so many over the years that it is hard to nail it down. One of our most recent favorite memories is going to our dream vacation together last year to Costa Rica. It was an adventure and helped us remember the us.

What would you do with $20,000?

Honestly we would use it to pay towards our school loans. We owe over $300,000 I school loans between my husband and my degrees and parent plus loans we had to take for our two kids to go to school. This would help us towards paying them off before we retire. We plan to retire in the next 9-10 years so it’s a lot to pay off.

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