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Like, Yulia. Like, "You..."
Youl-ya.
Yeah, Youl-ya.
- I was playing pool with a roommate of mine at a bar.
He asked me, "Should I invite my friend?"
And I said, "Yeah."
I think that was the first date probably,
when you took me to Domino's Pizza.
Domino's Pizza, yeah.
It wasn't too romantic.
- And he shows up with, like, this beautiful lavender bouquet,
and I was just like, "Is that for me?"
He was like, "Of course!"
Like, you know, "I love giving girls flowers."
- I was living in Copenhagen and he was living in New York,
but then he had a show in London
and I was like, "Might as well just go meet him."
- But they have this special with two pizzas for one
on Tuesdays, I remember.
- I didn't play pool anymore that night,
I just talked to him.
I charmed him.
He charmed me.
- Now, my English, it's a little bit better,
but on first date, we just smiled to each other
and mostly don't talk, and just smile, you know.
- My mom came to New York to meet Danny
and that was little bit interesting
because she asked me to ask him
in Korean, say, "Why he was dating a Korean girl."
And he said, "I'm not dating a Korean girl."
"I'm dating Sunny."
- You know, I told my mom, "Hey I think August
"should really get into modeling because he's hot
"and he looks like a model."
And my dad was like, "Yeah, duh."
And so my mom was like,
"But Titi, are you sure you're comfortable with this?"
Like, "I mean, there's gonna be women all over him, you know?"
Like, "You know what I mean, August?"
"There's gonna be women, like, on you."
And he's like, "Yeah that's true, it's gonna happen."
And I'm like, "Babe did you just-"
"Do you understand what she's saying?"
And he was like, "No, I didn't know what she was saying."
"I just agreed to it."
I was like, "Yeah, no."
- Like, my parents didn't really get it, initially,
but the more we spent time together
and the more serious we got,
and they realized, like, it was an actual, real relationship.
Then, they became very supportive
and they're super supportive now, and they love her.
And her parents love me too.
Hmm. (laughs)
Yeah, they do.
- Now it's happening with our son.
"Gonglyong" is "dinosaur" in Korean.
It's a cursing word in Spanish, "coño."
So, sometimes I drop something,
you know, typical thing, I break something,
and I'm like, "Coño!"
And then he's like, "Gonglyong, Gonglyong?"
"Like, the dinosaur? Where, where?" (laughs)
- I messed up his friend's name once.
Her name's Frederica and her nickname is Fede.
And I thought I was gonna be so smooth
and use the nickname,
and I accidentally called her "Federa",
which actually means "pillowcase" in Italian.
- I don't know the difference between "fun" and "funny".
And he's tried to explain it to me every time I say one,
either one of the words but-
- Well it's like- 'cause "fun" is, like, something that
is like an activity to do,
but then something that's funny is like, "ha ha."
But then sometimes she'll just say like, "Oh that was fun-"
- But sometimes an activity can be "fun, ha ha."
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- It had phases at the beginning
that we didn't think about anything other than the fact
that it was kind of neat and different, and cute or whatever.
And then, as that wears off a little,
then it can be frustrating whenever
you're not understanding each other.
And then I feel like you get some tools and tactics
with each other to hopefully, you know, kinda know when that's going on
and be able to push through it.
- When we broke up the first time
it was also because we really didn't talk about us.
And I think it's because
we didn't really know how to say some things.
How do we say back then, for example,
"Do you want to be exclusive?"
Like, "Do you wanna be just dating me?"
Instead of just, you know, like... focusing on one person.
We never said that before, you know, and then, yes, we broke up.
Had we had that conversation back then,
we probably wouldn't have breaking up, maybe, I guess.
- In the beginning I had trouble using my humor in English
because I had to, like, find out how to be funny in English.
Yeah, I would love to be able to show you my Danish self one day.
Yeah.
And we know each other so well
Yeah, we do.
Like, extremely well, but definitely to be able to like,
I don't know. To be like the most...
Yeah, to like-
...one, we'll have to know each other-
To get to the deepest level,
you would have to learn Danish, yeah.
Yeah. 100%.
- Yeah, the feeling when I try to explain what I mean
but then I get embarrassed because
it's like, not right what I tried to said
and I get a little bit shy, and I...
Then you stop saying what you wanna say.
Yeah, and I stop saying what I wanna say.
- I think it keeps the relationship, actually,
going and interesting because you never stop learning
about each other person and culture too.
So for us, I don't know, I think has been an advantage.
- So, it feels more like home when you're communicating,
or at least having in your language, first language,
and at least with your partner having all those little jokes,
or having him a little list to understand and get
that little Italian, in my case,
thing that it's very difficult to translate.
So me learning Italian help a little bit
is what you're saying.
Yes. That's what I meant. (laughs)
- To be honest with you,
I've never felt...
a genuine love
ever before from another man that's not my dad.
And that was something that it didn't matter
if he's... you know, started speaking to me in Japanese.
It didn't matter about that
because it was just something that he's a genuine guy
and that overrode every obstacle, you know?
'Cause I'm not gonna cry.
I want to, but I'm not gonna cry right now.
- We're getting married in this fall,
and his dad is gonna marry us, and I'm so nervous for him.
Yeah, that's gonna be funny.
Because he has to pronounce my full name.
It's gonna be fun. Funny?
Both.
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