Matey

We started as best friends. It took time and struggle before becoming a couple. We then started a family and are still best friends today!!

Placed 14th

in their group

We would like to thank you for supporting Matey 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 met while working at Walmart. A coworker introduced us and he shook my hand. We became best friends. Then he Han Solo'd me responding with "I know" to me letting him know I liked him. Embarrassed, I came to terms with just being friends and started dating someone else. That's when he realized that he liked me too, and decided to fight for me. He proceeded to try his hardest to get me to date him. Eventually he won me back over and we've been together ever since.

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

The memory that we both chose was the moment our first child was born. For both of us it was an epiphany that before this moment neither of us knew a person's real capacity for love. We talked later and realized we had the same thoughts. The moment he was born we looked at each other and it felt like The Grinch, our hearts grew 3 sizes. We had never felt a love like this and it wasn't just for our son. We loved each other more than we ever thought possible. We loved all our loved ones more.

What would you do with $20,000?

We would fix our family van because we commute from home to work and school daily and badly need our van. We would also put some in savings so that we don't have to live paycheck to two-days-before-paycheck. Lastly, we would go on a date since it's been years since we've gone on a real date.

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