Evaristo Salas Jr.

But

We grew in our love and we began to kind of just kind of attach to each other, become real attached to each other in that kind of way.

And like I said, she's a, she's a real compassionate and loves me in a way that I have not been loved other than by my father.

I mean, she's there for me all the time.

I talk to her every day.

We struggled, you know, through the pandemic together.

She was, they were locked in their, I mean, well, stuck in their houses over there in the Netherlands for a number of months.

And they were sending us all around different units and,

put in some quarantine, and it was mayhem, but we pushed through that.

And she actually came up to visit me right before it hit.

So I think it was like a month before they actually shut down her country.

She flew up here and met my family, stayed in Sunnyside with my dad and met my sisters.

That was the first time we met in person.

We had video visits, so we were able to see each other in that kind of way.

And then I met a little two-year-old who is basically my son.

I've been raising him for, I mean, as best I can in a place like this, but

And she spoke English real fluently.

She had a slight accent, but it's almost unnoticeable.

I don't really notice it.

And my little boy speaks just Dutch, which is, you know, but he speaks to me.