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“WELL, DID YOU WANT TO

BE A TEACHER?” WE ASKED

KNOWINGLY.

SHE SMILED.

“THAT WAS MY MOVE! I TOLD HIM

I WANTED TO BE A TEACHER

SO I COULD MEET UP WITH HIM.

BUT HE DIDN’T KNOW FOR SURE

SO, LITERALLY, AS SOON AS HE

ARRIVED, HE ASKED ME IF THIS

WAS A DATE. AND I SAID YES THIS

IS A DATE!”

FORTUNATELY FOR ART, THAT

WOULDN’T BE THE LAST YES

HE’D HEAR FROM PALOMA. SINCE

THEIR INITIAL DATE AT THE ICONIC

CHA CHA CHA RESTAURANT

IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE TWO

HAVE BEEN GLIDING AND TWO-­

STEPPING INTO EACH OTHER’S

LIVES WITH SHARED PASSIONS

FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING,

COOKING, SUPPORTING LOCAL

ARTISTS, AND BUILDING A FAMILY

WITH ARTNELSON’S SON FROM A

PREVIOUS MARRIAGE, TIMYAS.

“I WASN’T IN A PLACE WHERE I WAS

LOOKING,” ARTNELSON SHRUGGED.

COMING OUT OF A DIVORCE, THE

CALIFORNIA NATIVE WASN’T

ACTIVELY DATING. “I REALLY

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LOVE AT CHA CHA CHAWhen you ask Paloma Belara about her first date experience with Artnelson Concordia, she immediately crinkles into laughter. “He didn’t even know it was a first date,” she waved. Press her further and you’ll understand why.

Introduced by their musically inclined friend (an understatement at best, their friend is none other than Jack or “Kiwi” in the hip hop world), Paloma instantly took a liking to the high school teacher. So much so she asked Art if the two could get together because she “wanted to become a teacher herself.”

THOUGHT SHE JUST WANTED TO

INTERVIEW ME ABOUT BEING A

TEACHER!” HE SMILED BROADLY.

BUT, THE CHEMISTRY WAS

UNDENIABLE, THE COUPLE ADMITS.

IT WAS A GRADUAL ROMANCE,

EXPLAINS PALOMA. “THE

PROPOSAL WAS REALLY SIMPLE,

NO BIG SHOW OR SPECIAL

EFFECTS, BUT OUR ENTIRE

JOURNEY AS A COUPLE FELT LIKE

A PROPOSAL, “ SHE POINTS OUT.

“WE TOOK OUR TIME TO GET TO

KNOW EACH OTHER, LEARN EACH

OTHER, AND ALSO BE RESPECTFUL

TO THE FACT THAT HIS SON

WAS ANOTHER PIECE TO OUR

RELATIONSHIP THAT HAD TO BE

HANDLED WITH LOVE AND CARE.

AFTER ONE YEAR, WE BOTH KNEW

THAT WE WERE COMMITTED TO

EACH OTHER AND READY TO KEEP

GROWING. I GRADUALLY BECAME

PART OF HIS SON’S LIFE TOO, AND

SOON THE THREE OF US WERE

ENJOYING LIFE TOGETHER.”

SO WHEN THE TIME CAME

AROUND FOR ARTNELSON’S

BIRTHDAY LAST NOVEMBER,

THE ANSWER WAS EASY WHEN

ARTNELSON ASKED PALOMA TO

BE HIS PARTNER IN LIFE.

“YES. I SAID YES,” SHE SMILED.

A FEW MONTHS FOLLOWING THE

PROPOSAL, ARTNELSON, PALOMA,

AND TIMYAS WERE GREETED WITH

MORE BIG NEWS THAT WOULD

MARK THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR

FAMILY: TIMYAS WOULD SOON BE

A BIG BROTHER.

LIFE THESE DAYS IS LOOKING FULL

AND ROBUST FOR THE BELARA-­

CONCORDIA CLAN. THEIR STORY

AND COMMITMENT TO EACH

OTHER, FAMILY, COMMUNITY,

EDUCATION JUSTICE, AND THE

LOCAL ARTIST SCENE EMBODIES

OUR LOOK GOOD, DO GOOD

MAXIM. CONGRATULATIONS TO

THEIR INCREDIBLE UNION AND

FUTURE AHEAD.

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