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Ally Lara still hasn’t given up on finding her Shrek By Ema Sasic FINDING “THE ONE” IS NEVER AN EASY TASK, AND A PANDEMIC, WHICH HAS MADE GOING OUT AND MEETING NEW PEOPLE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, DOESN’T HELP EITHER.
Ally Lara decided to find love last year by creating the Instagram account @FindAllyLove.
In the spring of 2020, Ally Lara, assistant manager of the Fox Theater, decided she was ready to pursue love in a whole new way: totally out in the open for Bakersfield to see on social media. She created an Instagram account @findallylove and posted an image of herself in front of the Fox Theater with the marquee message: “Looking for the Shrek to my Princess Fiona DM on IG FindAllyLove.” “Once I knew the message was going up, there was no going back,” Lara, 26, said. “When you have no luck in love, anything goes.” Prior to her love campaign, Lara’s dating life wasn’t exactly what she imagined. She would date people here and there, but none turned into more serious relationships. She grew more and more frustrated, wondering what she was doing wrong in these relationships and if she was too picky when it came to love. She later realized that things weren’t working out not because of something she was doing, but because she just wasn’t with the right guys. In order to find “the one,” she decided she would have to get a little creative. After she introduced herself to the world of Bakersfield singles, Lara said she received more than 100 message requests from men hoping to be her » See more Personality on PAGE 60.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF ALLY LARA, EMA SASIC
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