A couple with a 30-year age gap insist their love is the real deal – and have baby twins to prove it. While many of her peers are finishing senior year and deciding on what college to go to, 18-year-old Tamajah, is already a mum to baby twin girls and living in a countryside home with its own library and lakeside views. Tamajah lives with her partner Markus (as well as a medley of cats and dogs) but her parents haven’t come to visit. Aged 48, Markus is older than both Tamajah’s mother and father. Tamajah conceived when she was just 17 – the legal age of consent where she lives, but she first met Markus when she was just 16. While on a grocery shopping trip to Walmart with her grandma, Tamajah noticed an older man looking at her. She said: “I was 16 when he approached me and I told him I was 18. I didn't want to like scare him off because of my age.” After going on a date, Tamajah knew she had to come clean - only to chicken out again and say she was 17. A couple more dates later and Markus found out the truth. He said: “When I learned that Tamaiah was 16, it obviously came as a surprise. It puts you in a tough position because here's a girl that you really like, that you want to spend time with but now you have to also think of it from the whole, legal aspect of ‘Well, can I?’ “She was only a month away from her 17th birthday so we just kind of put the brakes on things for a little bit and then moved forward after that.” After not seeing each other for a month their relationship quickly accelerated with Tamajah’s surprise pregnancy coming just five months after they started seriously dating. While Tamajah still takes the twins to her old family home, Markus has never gone with her. Like many protective parents they have expressed concern about Tamajah dating a man 30 years older than her. As the twins approach their first birthday later this year, the couple admit it would be too difficult to have a family party but hope with time the situation will improve.
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