[guitar music] - The two of you sitting here, are a massive contradictions.

You know that, right?

- We are.

- You got Mr. Rock and Roll.

- Yeah.

- In probably in his most sedate state right now.

- I'm very calm.

- [Interviewer] And then you're married to the mayor.

- Yeah.

So when his father, when I met Bill Clement, he said, "Well, are you married?"

And I said, "No."

- I think he said, "Are you spoken for?"

- Am I spoken for.

Whatever the term was.

And he said, "Well, you need to meet my son."

And I was like, "Okay, well that's a bit strange."

And he's like, "He's on a punk rock tour in Canada right now.

But when he comes back, I'll have him call you."

And I went home and called probably my parents and my friends and said, "I just agreed to the worst date of my life.

It's gonna be terrible."

- And then he called me and was like, "I got this girl you gotta meet when you get back from tour."

And I was like, "What does she do?

She's like a financial advisor?"

I'm like, "What, is she Republican too?"

And he's like, "Probably."

And I'm like, "Oh, this is never gonna work."

- You do have preconceived notions.

You have expectations of the person that you're gonna, the town you're gonna be in, or the person you're going to meet.

I moved to what I thought was gonna be a very small town with a lot of golfers, and found out that there's a lot of culture.

There's a lot of arts, a lot of different people here, and there's a lot of life downtown.

And that's something that, I felt like I was in a much bigger town.

But then you have all the joys of being in a small town.

- That's what's fun about this weird little place that we live is it's a melting pot of a bunch of weird, sort of confused, artsy people, great soldiers, golfers.

So you're gonna see a bunch of weird folks all over the town.

That's what makes it, we can call it blend in, or stick out, however you want to.

[guitar music] - What an honor to be the leader of a community that people are discovering and finding out the cool culture that we have here and the idea of growth, the idea that people want to be here.

It is, I think it's fabulous.

And we have a great opportunity to, as the town grows, to really shape it into what we want it to be, protecting it so that it is, it remains that community that people love.

We don't wanna grow so fast that we kind of lose sight of who we are.

But I think that's why people elected me and tasked me with that job.

I hope that I have a good vision for seeing that growth while preserving the culture of Southern Pines.

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