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About Me

My name is Matai

a identify as a guy

a child born from the American melting pot

my mother was a giant

her heart bigger than her height (6'7"), Samoan and Scottish

she raised me alone, a wonderful woman indeed <3

my father chose to live by his own creed, a traveling musician, salesman and athlete

Native American and African, born in LA yet traveled the world without a dime in the bank or gas in the tank...

Their stories go on but back to me now

I was born in the New Mexico, grew up in NY

learned French as a child

loved playing music until I gave up for a while

focused on math and college as that was the way out of poverty most would say

took a break before graduation to go to Germany for a year, found a government sponsored program that flew me there and kept me fed, still fluent to the ear but writing I fear

then back to the US I came, finished college with good grades

backpacked India for a month

then went corporate for a while

learned Spanish thanks to my ex

traveled south for the winter, Argentina and Brazil were in summer

then came covid and we all went undercover

although the times were tough I was lucky to find my new lover

like a dream somehow we met on tik tok and with 2 months were a team

our first date in person lasting 5 months without pause

crazy some may say, but we choose to make our own laws

love is the focus

kept working throughout

changed jobs to a startup

left with a bow to help others and no longer corporations

 

now I help raise social impact donations while working on NFT projects with the web3 community creating new occupations

modeling as well to help tell stories as we explore

we learn and try to never bore

recently I've practicing learning to soar

have been hoping to find time for music and roars

 

please feel free to ask me anything should you want to know more

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