John and Melissa

We survived 6 years of homelessness, my husband has saved my life 3 times, we can survive anything together

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Help us share our love story in Variety, take home $20,000, and go on a triple date with Jeff & Emilie Goldblum and Charlie Day & Mary Elizabeth Ellis!

Voting for the TOP 5 ends Thursday the 6th of August at 7PM PDT

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How did your love story begin?

We worked together at Walmart for 3 years. We were co workers, then friends, then lovers. In 2008 we got together, then in 2011, while we were homeless, we got married at Falls Park in Sioux Falls, SD. We will be married 15 years in August. I love John more now than ever. If you can survive homelessness for 6 years, you can survive anything ❤️

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

Going to see Mt. Rushmore. Traveling and working together. I became disabled in 2020 and John has taken care of me in every way humanly possible to make me feel worthy of being around. He really is the best husband in the world. I'm glad he's mine. ❤️

What would you do with $20,000?

We would buy a vehicle. We have needed one since 2019. We would go see our relatives and we would have an Anniversary party for our 15 years of being married.

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