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History of Danklin

October 15th 2020: First Contact

Franklin sent out a Tweet Oct 15, 2020, "Pro Tip: use seat heater to keep food warm" using his Tesla. Dana replied asking if he was "picking up🍕  😃". Franklin was not. (Source). At the time we were not following each other on Twitter, however this was our first "conversation"... Well not much of a conversation but it's where we started. Fun fact about that first Tweet;  despite that idea popping in Franklin’s head for the Tweet, he never did try to keep food warm. He did however use the AC to prevent ice cream from being melted… sort of the same thing. Right?

December 2020: Friendship

The Twitter algorithm kept showing each other's Tweets where eventually somewhere along the line we followed each other. During the months that followed, Franklin started the #FSDBetaCanada campaign. It was fun memes and trolling others daily to try to get the Tesla FSD Beta to Canada. Sooner or later this hashtag ended up on a ton of Twitter names, memes, etc. During this time Franklin even trolled a few of Dana's Tweets. She always laughed and was cool about it. We had a very, very short conversation about memes in December of 2020.  Then we would not have much of any direct conversations until October 2021.

In October of 2021, Dana asked to be in more Twitter groups. Franklin quickly reached out to his friend Earl, the CEO of Frunk Puppy Friday (put your dogs in Frunks). Dana joined the board to vote on animal frunk photos shortly after. We were friends at the time and I told Dana about all my eye trouble. She was kind to see how I was doing randomly moving forward.

March 27th 2022: BIRTHDAY FUN

Our entire friendship started and was based on memes at this point. So it only made sense to celebrate Dana’s birthday in 2022, in the best way possible, MEMES ALL DAY LONG! The @daelmorparty account had custom memes scheduled every 10 minutes starting at 8am and ran until 7pm. It was a fun way to celebrate Dana's birthday. They are all innocent, cheesy, fun memes.

May 6th 2022: THE BEGINNING

We officially started a relationship! This day was carefully chosen by Franklin. Everything has to be meaningful and romantic. Since we connected through Twitter, specifically Elon Musk's companies it only made since to have some sort of tribute. While SpaceX started prior to May 6th, it got its funding and officially started on this date. While Dana and Franklin were friends prior, this was the official starting date of our relationship. 

May 25th 2022: FIRST MEET

We first met in person on May 25th. We decided to go out and pick up cheese pizza. Over the course of the following few weeks, did all sorts of fun things; checked out the squares in Savannah, went to the beach, watched a movie, cooked together etc etc.

March 26th 2023: THE PROPOSAL

Franklin purposely requested to go to the Telfair square. He brought a gift bag and told Dana that she would "open her birthday gift early". Little did she know, Franklin was about to propose... (read more)

May 6th 2023: THE WEDDING

Franklin and Dana got married at Telfair Square at 2:14pm. That is the exact time when Dana started walking down. It is also the time when the first Telfair Square photo was taken of both Dana and Franklin... (read more)

March 26th 2024: NOT JUST VISITORS

This is the year anniversary from our engagement but more importantly Dana and Ellie became permeant residents in Canada on March 26th 2024... (read more)

More About Us

That is our origin story. If you want to learn more about the many fun moments we do have a dedicated timeline. This site is filled with all sorts of information, fun memories that we have built together. 

OUR FIRST DAY TOGETHER

POPPING THE QUESTION

JUST MARRIED