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August 29, 2019
San Clemente, California
#shatt2019

Shannon & Matthew

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Matthew Johnson

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Shannon Laird

#shatt2019

August 29, 2019

San Clemente, California

Matt's Story

How we met

On July 5, about 8:30 I went to the pool by my parents house to relax in the jacuzzi. I was there alone for an hour when I decided to leave. I was taking my sweet time drying off. I started walking over to a table to finish getting dressed, thats when I noticed I wasn't alone anymore. I don't know how long she'd been there but it was apparent that she'd been waiting for me to leave. As we passed each other I said to myself, I'd be stupid to leave now. I stood by the table quickly trying to think of any reason to get back in the jacuzzi to talk to her. So I walked back to the jacuzzi and got in. She had a red bikini top with black bottoms. She also had headphones in clearly wanting nothing to do with me, so I decided to talk to her. She tried to ignore every attempt I made to talk to her. I didn't care though, I wanted to talk to her, so I did, I kept talking until the headphones came out. She learned everything about me that night and I left with her phone number. #winner

Shannon's Story

How we met

I walked to the jacuzzi with my fingers crossed hoping no one would be there. When I got there he had just started drying off so I waited outside the gate, he took FOREVER. As he was walking away from the jacuzzi, I figured it was safe to go in. As we passed each other I heard him say something but I had my headphones in and just ignored it. He was standing by the table, he kept looking at me, I pretended to not notice. Then he decided to get back in the jacuzzi and talk to me and talk and talk and talk no matter how hard I tried to ignore him, he kept talking. Even with my headphones in he kept talking, so I eventually gave up listening to music and took my headphones out. By the time we were leaving I think I learned everything about him, including how much I loved his stupid sense of humor and he ended up leaving with my number that night. #hewon

The Proposal

The beach, Gatorade and Turkey jerky

We went to the beach one night, which was not unusual at all since we spent a lot of our time together at the beach. On our way there we stopped at the liquor store and got some Gatorade and turkey jerky. We got to the beach, it was dark out already. We found a good spot to sit and started talking. Then all of a sudden, over turkey jerky and Gatorade he asked me to marry him. I said uh huh, then he wrote it in the sand and took a picture, a group of people walked by and said congrats and the whole night couldn't have been any more perfect.

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