LAKE DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Inside the Sumlin home in Lake Dallas the family is hitting Facebook and Twitter hard.
It’s the last day to help Austin Sumlin, 18, win a $50,000 scholarship to go to college.
Today is also his birthday and he’s hoping to celebrate big.
“Every share and tweet on Facebook and Twitter is a vote,” says Austin Sumlin. “Gotten more than 40-thousand shares on Facebook and 2500 tweets.”
The student made a video about how he met his dad.
“When I was five, I was the only kid in the daycare who didn’t have somebody to make a Father’s Day card for,” explains Austin.
His biological father bailed, so he started badgering his mom to find a new dad.
“I urged her to go to the daddy store and get a new one,” says Austin.
His pleas for a new dad never wavered.
“He would tell me what a beautiful bride I would was going to be,” says mom Heather Sumlin.
“The last time he told me I would be a beautiful bride was the day he talked about, ‘You are going to a wedding and you are going to walk down the aisle and you are going to meet this man and he is going to be my dad and he is going to love you and he is going to love me’ and I remember what it was like for him.”
Heather got on the popular dating website Match.com and she and Austin met their match.
They married Rich in 2003.
One of the most moving moments was captured in a picture in the video showing the couple walking down the aisle after their “I do’s” with Rich holding little Austin.
“It was important for Austin to know that the wasn’t losing any bit of me,” says Heather “… but he was gaining a dad.”
Since the couple met on Match.com, Austin was eligible to enter the scholarship contest.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH AUSTIN’S MATCHMADE STORY
On this birthday Austin has one last plea.
“Share it like a 100 times at least… every hour,” says Austin “… get friends to do it parents and grandparents and cat if possible.”
Austin is enrolled at a local community college right now.
NOTE: You must share the link matchmade.com/Austin on Facebook or Twitter to vote for Austin in the contest. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. on September 1.
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