- Sucky, did you call me Sookie?
- You know Jersey Shore?
- Like Snooki?
- Snooki, but Sookie.
- Deal breakers, deal breakers for me
would have to be a person who is,
who has bad energy, who lacks ambition, who lacks drive,
and who has bad breath.
Bad breath is a deal breaker for me too.
- I'm looking for a best friend,
someone I can share everything with,
talk on the beach for hours with.
I'm just looking for a best friend
who I can also be physical with,
and have that fluttery feeling.
- Your name is Jennifer, and this is your story.
You are 25 years old.
For work you are a graphic designer.
You grew up in Los Angeles.
- My name is Ellie.
I am 26 years old.
I am an owner of a clothing company.
And I was born in Colorado,
and grew up in D.C. and North Carolina.
- I was gonna say Colorado.
I was gonna say Colorado.
I should've just went with my first mind.
- Your name is Cheryl, and this is your story.
You are 22 years old.
For work, you are a waitress.
You grew up in New York.
- My name is Britney.
I am 25, so thank you.
For work I'm actually a singer, songwriter,
but I am a waitress on the side yeah to pay the bills.
I grew up in Chicago.
Why did you think my name was, what was it Cheryl?
That's like, am I 50?
- I definitely thought it was maybe Sharon or Cheryl
or something.
I felt like it was a Caucasian name.
- Really? Britney, Britney is not that far,
but Cheryl is like 1979.
- But for some reason it was just so stuck in my head,
and I just needed to write it down.
(laughs)
The waitress I didn't want to write down because I knew
that that's not actually your true occupation,
but I felt that was you.
- Okay.
The worst time that I got my heart broken was probably,
I was in this really long relationship for about five years,
and we were like engaged and everything was perfect,
and then college happened.
And even though it was the worst pain that I've ever felt,
it kind of, it really helped me.
I wouldn't take it back for anything
cuz it helped me mature,
and it helped me realize what I wanted in a woman,
and what I was settling for
and what I would never settle for again.
- Growing up I went to an all-black high school.
I was the only white female in my class,
and so I immediately got pegged with Ellie the Barbie doll.
I definitely felt like I learned
what it's like to be picked on,
what it's like to be bullied.
And here you are in adult life and you still have
a few people who pick on you here and there,
and you just learn to
channel that energy for the better.
- Should I start?
- Yes, you go.
Ladies first.
- If you could pick a new name you would pick Jade.
You were voted best dressed.
And in high school you would describe yourself as a rebel.
- Okay, if I could pick a new name,
it'd honestly be Elizabeth
because my mom one time told me
that that was the name they were going to give me.
And I like long names.
And you can always shorten it to Beth and Bethany,
and Ellie obviously.
- You've thought that out.
- Yes, I have.
(laughs)
I was not voted at all, for anything.
And in high school I would describe myself as ...
Undetermined, or undecided.
That's how I would describe myself, as undecided.
- I get you.
Do you feel like you were a rebel in high school?
A little bit?
You come off as a rebel.
- I always gave my teachers trouble.
- You and me both.
- If you could pick a new name,
don't kill me, but it would be Sookie.
(both laugh)
You were voted most likely to succeed.
And in high school you would describe yourself as shy.
- If I could pick a new name I would pick Golden.
I really love the name Golden.
- That's a beautiful name.
- I don't know why, I just love it.
Suckie? Did you call me Sookie?
- You know Jersey Shore?
- Like Snooki?
- Snooki, but Sookie.
- No.
And I was voted most likely to ...
Actually I wasn't voted most likely to succeed at all.
I was voted cutest couple, at that time.
And in high school I would describe myself as an outcast
I was like the only person who was out in high school,
so I was ...
- Really?
- I was the outcast.
I was the one everyone was like ...
like whispering about.
- And you had a partner in high school?
- Yes, I took my girlfriend to prom,
and we were the first ...
- Did you wear the pants?
- I didn't wear, neither one of us wore the pants.
We both wore dresses,
and we were actually voted cutest couple.
We were the first lesbian couple to be voted cutest couple.
- I'm so proud of you.
- Thank you.
And that's how I told my mom that I was gay.
- Really?
- Yes, through prom.
It was insane, everyone was like voting for like
who they wanted to be cutest couple,
and I was telling people not to vote for us.
I'm like please, my mom doesn't know.
My aunt worked at my high school,
so I'm like please they don't know, don't,
and they still voted for me.
And my aunt like opened the yearbook and she's like oh,
cutest couple, so yeah.
- So I grew up a Navy brat.
That meant that we got to travel around a lot, got to move,
which meant that I was the new kid in school, every time.
My dad was always gone, he was always working.
Either six months there or six months here,
always traveling overseas.
When my dad was home, it was still my mom running the house,
so she's kind of the boss.
She's got the pants in the relationship.
So I'm pretty used to that.
- Well growing up, my dad was in the Army,
and he was really strict.
When we woke up we had to make the bed,
everything had to be in order, everything had to be clean.
But my mom was more like, you know just let 'em live,
let 'em, you know, let 'em figure it out for themselves.
She really encouraged us to make our own mistakes.
Okay, when you die you believe you will go to heaven.
At your funeral you want people to be happy.
Of all the people who you know that have died,
the one whose death was the hardest for you
was your grandmother.
- When I die I do believe I'll either go to heaven
or be reincarnated.
At my funeral I want it to be a party,
so lots of balloons, and loud music, and lots of photos.
The hardest death in my life thus far would be
my grandfather.
- I was kind of right.
- Yeah.
When you die you believe you will go to heaven.
At your funeral you would want lots of laughter and music.
Of all the people who you know that have died
the one whose death was the hardest for you
was your grandma.
- See I don't really believe in death, really.
I just feel like the shell dies,
but your spirit keeps coming around.
At my funeral I want it to be a party.
I mean like concert, I don't care, something big, and fun.
And out of all the people that has died in my family,
the hardest was my father.
But I mean, like I said, I don't believe in the end.
I don't believe that that's like the end all be all.
I feel like I still talk to him, see him, feel him,
you know, so it's not, you know.
- When did your father pass away?
- I was 13.
- Wow.
- Yeah.
- A really influential time in your life.
- Very, very, but I mean because he was a musician too,
and he was a songwriter too.
And I still have all of his lyrics, and tapes,
and just everything.
I have all of his musical possessions,
and it really inspired me to write, and to sing,
and to do all the things that I'm doing so,
I still feel like he's living through me.
- Absolutely, that's amazing.
Will you sing to me please?
- What can I sing?
♫ You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
♫ You make me happy when skies are gray.
♫ You never know dear, how much I love you
♫ [Both] Please don't take my sunshine away.
- You can go first.
- When I first saw you I decided that I would date you,
but after talking to you I decided
that I would still date you.
- When I first saw you I decided that I would date you.
And after speaking with you, I've decided
I'll continue dating you.
- Thank you.
(laughs)
I mean you can just call me Suckie all day, right?
Is that what you called me?
- It's Sookie.
- Okay, well just call me Sookie now.
All Sookie Sookie now.
(both laugh)
You want to go get some wine?
- Yes.
- Let's go. - Okay.
♫ Soulpancake