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I'm a three feet baddie that deserves to be treated like a queen
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I kind of look like an average size, just like smushed together. Today I'm going on my first blind date
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I've never gone on a blind date before in my life. I'm curious as to how he's going to react
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Hello, hello, how's it going? Hi! How are you? Good, how are you? Today I'm going on a blind date
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And I've never gone on a blind date before in my life, so I have no idea what to expect
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But yeah, I'm excited. I was born with a rare form of dwarfism called cartilage hair hypoplasia
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I'm only three feet, and typically other types of dwarfisms are a lot taller than me
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I kind of just look like an average size, just like smushed together
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Everything's like proportionate except my legs and my arms. High school was the hardest
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Kids were having crushes, and it was all fun and games, but nobody wanted to date the little person
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all the guys were like you know I'd date you if like you were taller or they like I had a secret
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relationship for about six years which is terrible he didn't want anybody to know
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for me I'm curious as to how he's going to react I can see people's reaction before they actually
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say anything so I think that's what I'm more like curious about. So right now I'm on my blind date
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and we're at a Mexican restaurant. I'm kind of nervous now. As I get older I realize that
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just someone that's like genuine and honest and loyal is like a huge checklist. It's not easy to find
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My name is Brian Sullivan. I'm 29 years old and I'm a musician. About my date I don't know much
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about her, I just know that she is a little person and she looking for love a lot of love big love So I here Hello hello how it going Hi How are you Good how are you Fantastic I Jonna Jonna I Brian Brian nice to meet you How you doing today Good good Good good It another good day
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I kind of hope that he, like, I don't know if like no reaction means good. I think probably just an open, like, like it doesn't matter. It's just who you are. It's no big deal
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So what's up, we gonna get some food, we gonna get some drinks? Yeah, I'm good, I'm good, I'm hungry. I'm trying to drink a margarita for sure
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Here we go. I know how it goes. They say you buy two, the third one's $5 off. So we might be able to share that last one. Okay
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Give me two straws. Actually, I don't drink. Oh, you don't? No. Okay, beautiful. Yeah, I've been sober for about almost five years. Congratulations
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Thank you. Congratulations. I don't want to send you off the edge. No, no, it doesn't bother me. Okay
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It's all good. I've been around it. I love it. I love it. Is there any reason in particular why you stopped drinking
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Well, yeah. Obviously, it's good for you not to drink, so, you know what I mean? I just kind of got out of control, you know
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Oh, no worries. You know, living in a world that doesn't accommodate little people is hard
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I did struggle with an addiction of drugs and alcohol, which I'm now sober
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I'm feeling good about myself, you know? Can we get two waters? Yeah
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I want some lemon in the water, and then can I get maybe a strawberry margarita
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Ooh. Strawberry margarita. Yeah, I'm sweet like that. I do love, like, if we have the connection of, like, music
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because I love just, like, blasting and singing songs in the car. Life is music
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That's what these tattoos are. So you got the microphone here. I love that. The tattoo says, my music is medicine
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And then Love City is, you know, my little crew. Here in Fresno
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Okay, okay. So I'm a dancer. Okay. So I danced in L.A. for quite a while
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And at studios and stuff. Yeah, yeah. What kind of dance? Hip hop
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Straight hip hop. Yeah. OK, yeah. I got the, you know. No, I can see it
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I can see it. Dancing has pretty much been my whole life Like I started dancing when I was six I moved to L and it really helped me get through a lot of times And then I started posting about it and people loved it
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And then TikTok came into my life, and I loved that. And I kind of blew up from there because nobody had really seen someone my size do dances that average people do
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Thank you. I offer you guys any extra stuff. I'm good. Yeah, I'm good
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I see all these jalapenos. I'm gonna just slide these to the side and eat them proportionately
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Thank you. You know what? Is it all right if I excuse myself in just a moment? Sure, go ahead
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Give me just a moment. I'll be right back. I love the fact that he's a musician because that means like we would connect on a like
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creative level and be able to talk about it, which we already were. Like everything seemed to flow like very well
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I think we're having a good conversation. Like he's funny, he's smart, very talented, very handsome
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So I'm happy. Hey, I am back. Hey. I am back. You didn't miss me too much, did you
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Just a little bit. So that's it. You were talking about the hype
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I need to ask some questions. Yeah. This is my first time, so do you mind if I ask questions
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No, go for it. Okay, first and foremost. Yes. How do you consider and you use the words to talk about yourself
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Because I don't want to come in here and disrespect you. Okay, okay. I appreciate that. So, I mean, first and foremost, my name is Jonna
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That's who I am. I love it. But I do have dwarfism. Okay. And, like, little person is fine, just not the M-word
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Yeah. I'm sure you know. Yeah. Midget is very derogatory, and it has a lot of negative contact to it
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So when people say, oh, that's a little person, like, yeah, I am a little person
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That is accurate. But I'm also just a person and a human being like everyone else
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I'm black, so I know there's words that you can't say. You know what I mean? I'm trying to make sure
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That's how it, like, same relation, I guess. Absolutely. So I understand it the same thing with them Yeah no I think if you have been around it in a negative way then you don really want to hear it Which the world is pretty negative all around so
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You know, you learn something every day. And I was told, and I live by, if you're not earning, you should be learning
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You know what I mean? I love that. If anything, I appreciate you for educating me. Yeah, of course
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Was I attracted to him? Yes, I was attracted to him. Yes. What? I like that he was tall and good style
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He surprised me because it was so easy to talk to him
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All right, so what's up? We about ready to go? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, let's make a noise. I don't know
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It just seemed very genuine. So, yeah. I was surprised to see that she was three foot
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You know what I mean? I'm not even going to lie. I'm six foot one. So to see her actually stand up next to her, I was like, okay, I see what's going on
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How was the date? I think it went great. I like it. It was great
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Yeah, yeah. It was a beautiful experience. I'm happy. Totally, totally. I think my favorite part was me just really being nervous as somebody who does performances and stuff like that like talking over her and stuff like
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Damn, bro chill, you know, so that was like just different for me, but I enjoyed it. It was a great time
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Let's make it happen. Yeah, let's make it happen. I'm with it. Yeah I already said we're shooting videos you dancing. What's up
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I think the biggest thing that I've learned today was to just go with the flow and like every experience that is given to you
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is going to help you learn something about yourself. So might as well just jump on it
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And I'm glad I did. Thank you