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A young woman stands next to a horse.

"One couple each drove five hours to meet halfway in Roma,"
app creator Mia Ryan said.

Image of a young man wearing a blue workers shirt.

"You probably know most of the people in your hometown, and the gene pool gets very, very small."

"If you're in the Northern Territory, 100km is not that far away."

"I'm full-time on the family farm, and I was really struggling to meet someone,"
she said.

"I sort of started realising that I couldn't not do it,"
she said.

Photo of a woman sitting in a paddock with a laptop.

"Because we've got the Australia-wide function, we've got so many long-distance relationships happening,"
Ms Ryan said.

"But I was on the app trying to test it and use it and everything like that, and yeah, I stumbled upon Josh."

Image of a young man on a quad with a dog.

"You can try and build the farm as best you can to what you would like it to be, but what is it without someone to share it with?"

Image of a man and a woman getting in a tractor.

"You'll never know if you don't try."

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