Our story began back in 2005. We were both young. We added each other on my space which you know I was young. I just wanted to meet people. We started talking messaging more and more every day on the phone through messages. Never once met after about a year or two my sister had invited me to one of her friends birthday parties. I said OK once we got there I sat there for a little bit and she introduced me to the birthday boy which was him.

I would say my favorite memory between us. Both would be the first time he ever spent the night and met my family. We went swimming. It was around lunchtime, and we went to go eat lunch in the room and that was the first time we ever took a picture together and I was drinking a juice box and I told him I don’t ever share my juice box and we just started laughing and he told me we’re gonna share juice boxes for a long time

With the $20,000 I think we would try to definitely help our families as well as maybe even start getting a place of our own and I would definitely try to get back to the community because at one point in my life I struggled with homelessness and addiction and I see people still struggle and we want to help those people let them know that people do care