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AT 6ft 8.5” tall, Savvy always attracts attention. Coming from an incredibly tall family - including a 7ft 4" little brother - she reached 6ft 7" by the eighth grade. Today, Savvy will be meeting Hans, 21, on a blind date - but will he be open to Savvy's tall height and unconventional approach to dating?
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I'm Savvy Trapp. I am six foot eight and a half. Growing up, my height always affected me in one
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way or another. In one month, I grew almost two inches. I'm going into this bar. I don't usually
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do blind dates. How are you doing? Can I hug you? Yes, of course. I am actually married to my
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beautiful wife, Danielle. I'm Savvy Trapp. I'm 28 years old and I live in Duluth, Minnesota
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I am six foot eight and a half. Growing up my height always affected me in one way or another
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just whether it was me growing so fast that my coordination couldn't necessarily keep up. I was
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kind of like fumbling and awkward. In one month I grew almost two inches once. The pain in my legs
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I've got stretch marks on the back of my legs from that and at age 12, sixth grade, I was six foot two
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and wearing size 12 men's shoes. And I just felt like different than everyone
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Now I feel a lot better about my height. Our mom, she raised us up really well
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and just really poured into our hearts and our minds that being tall and being different
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was something to be proud of and something that was beautiful. For the longest time
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like I didn't know that polyamory was a thing. I never had heard of it
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Wasn't until I met my lovely wife Danielle that you know she really taught me what polyamory is and that you know you can love more than one person and it doesn't take away from anyone or anything. It just builds on the love
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I'm going to this blind. I don't usually do blind dates. I'm a little bit nervous but mostly excited
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Finding clothes that fit right is such a challenge. This is meant to be a long dress. This is meant to go past one's knees
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But this, it just barely, you know, and just because I have such long legs, if it's like
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borderline short it going to look you know mildly scandalous just because my legs are so long
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My name's Hans. I'm 21. I really like someone who's intelligent. I'm creative myself
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They don't have to be creative, but I like people who are creative. They come from all different types of backgrounds
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I really, really appreciate those things. Hi How's it going? Great, how are you doing
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Good, can I hug you? Yes, of course, of course Nice to meet you Nice to meet you And your name was
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I'm Hans They didn't give me any information So I'm Savannah Me neither
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Nice to meet you Nice to meet you But yeah, my friends call me Savvy Okay, okay Yeah
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Are you from the area? Yeah, I'm originally from Duluth No way
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Yeah, yeah But now I live in the city like in miniaturists
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I'm laughing because I'm from Duluth. I literally drove from Duluth this morning
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No way. Yes. That's crazy. Small world. It just gets smaller. Yeah, yeah
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I have like a couple, like when I'm on a date, like I have, you know
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a couple things that obviously I'm super tall, right? Right, yeah. I'm six foot eight and a half
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probably seven in the boots. Wow, that's awesome. So I usually tell
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before I even meet people, I usually tell them that just to like limit the shock factor
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But you handled it with grace and so well. I never really have experienced that like in a first time like meeting with someone
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So that was so refreshing. And so like, oh my gosh, like God bless you
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Good. Oh, I really appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah, we all come in shapes and sizes
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And I don't judge when it comes to that. Yeah, no, that's totally awesome
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I really appreciate like a refreshing like non-judgmental perspective. Do you know what polyamory is
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I do know like just a little bit like just briefly kind of what it's about but yeah not
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So I am a polyamorous person so that means I have more than one romantic relationship And so I am actually married to my beautiful wife Danielle
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We've been married for three years, and she's polyamorous as well, of course
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I also have another long-term partner that I've been seeing for about four years as well
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You know, where we're from up north, it's not a very common thing, right
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So I immediately have to say, hey, are you okay with this
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because a lot of people either are misinformed or not informed at all about what it is
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And they're like, oh, cool, you get to be with all the people you want. So I'm like, no, that's not quite exactly how it is
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Just because I'm married and I have my boyfriend, Ryan, that doesn't stop me wanting to make these new connections with people
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And the fact of the matter is that it really does not force you to define any relationships
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because they can be whatever they're meant to be, whatever they're meant to evolve into, right
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So like if you're friends with this person and then feelings happen, well, then you can build on that and you can grow that
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and you can naturally just let the relationships evolve to where they're supposed to go
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Do you have any immediate reactions or surprises like meeting me now or all of this stuff I just threw you
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I did an awful lot of talking. I promise I'm a business. No, no, I'm all for it. I love to listen. Like, I love to listen to your background. I think, like, you've probably lived, like, a really cool life, and so I'd love to hear more about that
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Yeah, I don't know. So that's just a little bit about what I'm up to. So what do you do
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Yeah, so I go to school at St. Olaf. So it's just like a small liberal arts college
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So I'm just in my last year there. So I'm a senior. So I might graduate in two weeks
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Oh, my gosh. Well, then what's next? Yeah. Well, I do music
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So I write music, produce music, and put that out there. Yeah
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That's very cool. Yeah. Yeah I have about like 50 songs out on Spotify and all the songs That cool Yeah Good for you Thank you You know Yeah yeah That awesome Oh thank you so much
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So, I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back. Okay, awesome. Oh, bones sitting in the chair too long
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Yeah. I think it's going good so far. I feel like he is super open and honest and receptive to everything I'm saying
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and he's not, you know, just saying like, yeah, yeah, yeah. he's like thinking about what I'm saying. I don't think it could possibly be going any better to be
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honest with you like we're laughing we're talking about things I don't know I'm just like I'm excited
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Is your family really tall like your mom and dad or? Yeah this is actually super random but we
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actually since 2020 have had the Guinness World Record for the world's tallest family. Wow wow
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So we're all pretty tall. My little brother Adam is the tallest
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It's just under seven foot four. Next is me at six eight and a half
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and then my dad at six eight, and then my sister, she's just under six six
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and then my mom is coming in as the runt at six foot three
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Well, this was lovely, and I would absolutely love to see you again sometime
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And we'll just have to probably exchange some contact info. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah
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How did the day go? I think it went awesome. I think we really connected and have a lot of similar values
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And we both agreed that we wanted to see each other again. I totally agree. Definitely just similar backgrounds, which was really cool to catch up on that
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Yeah. Definitely similar values. I would definitely say agree with all that
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Yeah. Yeah. We're all different for a reason. If everything was the same, everything would be so incredibly boring
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So just celebrate our differences and connect on our similarities. and just find a way to meet each other in the middle, you know
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