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🇺🇸 American living in Oz 🇦🇺 | 📝 Writer
💍 @don.baker31 |👩‍🎓 FSU & UCF
💋 Milspouse | 💙 Boy mom
🌎 Wanderlust | ✨ Eternal Optimist

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Meet The Bakers:
⭐️ We were born the same day of the same year

🌎 She’s American, he’s Australian (by way of Papua New Guinea)

🥰 We met at age 14

✈️ Our lives split for decades

🎉 We reconnected as a couple at age 40

😬 We survived a long-distance relationship for 4.5 years

😞 During Covid-19, we couldn’t see each other for 22 months

💍 We finally married 30 years after first meeting

🐨 We now live happily in Australia

❤️ We have six beautiful children between the two of us

📚 We can’t wait to write our next chapters

P.S. He proposed with this song playing in the background. ☺️

#australianandamerican #childhoodsweethearts #firstlovelastlove #realliferomance #romeoandjuliet taken in Australia by @jackiembaker

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3 years ago

These photos were taken 10,985 days apart. 😮

Anything worth having is worth the wait. 💕

#longlostlove #childhoodsweethearts #firstlovelastlove #australianandamerican by @jackiembaker

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3 years ago

🥳 I love that we were born on the same day, @don.baker31! Happy birthday to us! taken in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia by @jackiembaker

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20 days ago

@debbiegibson was pure magic tonight! ✨

My ‘80s icon is more beautiful and talented than ever! taken in The Fortitude Music Hall by @jackiembaker

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a month ago

💕 Luckiest girl in the world! by @jackiembaker

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2 months ago

Australian animals are magical, especially the ones at @lonepinekoala! 🐨 🦘🦜❤️🇦🇺

#Australia #marsupials #macropods #australiananimals #lonepinekoalasanctuary @visitbrisbane taken in Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary by @jackiembaker

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2 months ago

It’s all fun and games over here! 🎲🥰 taken in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia by @jackiembaker

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3 months ago

📣 1993! My bestie surprised me with cheerleading footage from middle school! ❤️💙

#vhstape #1993 #cheerleaders taken in Tallahassee, Florida by @jackiembaker

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4 months ago

Date night with the Bakers! ❤️ taken in Zyon Brisbane by @jackiembaker

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5 months ago

🎉Surprise! I was on a work trip to DC and this happened! @_thewayiwander_ flew in from Germany and @shandi__mariee drove in from North Carolina! Lucky me. ☺️ by @jackiembaker

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6 months ago

🎄Christmas season with @lifeafterdefence! Feeling festive and appreciative! by @jackiembaker

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10 months ago

Thankful. 😌🍁🦃 🧡 by @jackiembaker

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