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Gisela & Matthew

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Matthew Petrakis

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Gisela Rosende

October 4, 2025

Berryville, VA
119 days119 d23 hours23 h38 minutes38 min28 seconds28 s

How We Met

From Texas to Greece...kinda

When Gisela was entering high school, she moved from a small town in Texas back to Florida (where she actually lived for most of her childhood), specifically to Kendall. She enrolled in Archimedean Upper Conservatory, a charter school that focused on Greek and Mathematics (I know...why?) that looked like Miami Hogwarts. During the very first day of school, Gisela walked into her Ethics class and made eye contact with Matthew. I wish I could tell you it was love at first sight...but the truth is that Matthew waved at Gisela (or so she thought) and Gisela waved back only to realize he wasn't talking to her, but his friend who was standing next to her. After class, Matthew came by Gisela's locker and in true Matthew fashion, laughed at Gisela's awkwardness. If you ask him about this conversation, he'll say Gisela was very Texan and he thought it was hilarious...Gisela thinks he was obviously intrigued. Plus how Texan can a Cuban girl from Miami really get in three years? They (naturally) exchanged phone numbers and probably KIKs and from there, they became the best of friends. So much so that their friends would tease them that one day they'd profess their love, get married and have babies (lovingly nicknamed "GisePetras" - sound familiar?). Of course, they denied this throughout their friendship...but we all know how that ended.

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