Connect How did your love story begin?

One night in late July of 2000 I came home and got on my computer, still with dial up, and went to a local yahoo! chat room where I gave my future wife pager number. After a funny interaction with her when she paged me the first time be began talking on the phone. After a few weeks we met in person at her aunt’s house and went on our first date. On this date I burned my eye brows with an untested lighter lighting a cigarette at the Applebees, it smelled like burned haired so bad that other peope

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

Most of our marriage I have been an extremely obese person with my weight topping out at a whopping 535lbs. At that weight my mobility was extremely limited. In 2022 our insurance company began to cover part of gastric bypass surgery. After almost dying from complications from that, I lost over 300lbs, sadly I found about 50 those. After that we went to Europe we a group from the school she works for, only way we could afford it and it still took us 2 years to pay for it. I could write a book on

What would you do with $20,000?

We are a very low income family and we live in a house built in the 1950s that was my mother’s. The last ten years of my mother’s life she needed full time care and we moved in to care for her. Although the was in poor health, my mothers death was sudden and she had not updated her will so need to go to probate court that cost a minimum $3k. Our house also needs a good bit of repairs. We have 6k of credit card debt I’d like gone. Anything else will go towards an awesome family vacation.