We found each other when we least expected it and built our relationship on communication, trust, and choosing each other daily.
We would like to thank you for supporting Fred Lahache 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.
I was on a business trip in Paris when he saw me in a mutual friend's Instagram story and saved a reminder to message me when I arrived. He invited me for a drink "as friends"—he was loosely seeing someone, and I'd sworn off dating. Neither of us expected anything. But after meeting, we kept talking across countries and time zones, and what started as friendship quickly became something much more.
What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?My favorite memory is when he took me to his hometown in France and planned an entire three-day adventure. We celebrated his birthday with his parents, went horseback riding, visited a vineyard, and explored places I'd never seen before. More than anything, I loved being welcomed into his world and experiencing the people and places that shaped the man I love.
What would you do with $20,000?We'd use it to bring our families together and start building our future. It would help us have a small, meaningful wedding and allow our parents to meet in France for the first time. The rest would help us begin our life together there, turning our international love story into a shared home and the next chapter of our journey.
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