INSPIRATIONAL
went on and on that I was so excited about being there, I
didn’t care if all I won was a toaster oven. It broke my heart
when they picked me.”
“He stole my thunder,” Polly says with a grin, while Allen
credits her with his success.
“She’s incredible with prices,” he says. “I looked to her
for help.”
Even when he thought she was wrong, he went with
Polly’s mouthed guidance from her audience seat. As a result,
he won cash, a BMW and other prizes.
“We sold the BMW so we could finish the house, tripling its
value,” Allen explains.
He also bought Polly a Harley to replace the motorcycle
she’d sold at a time when they needed money.
“They say the Lord works in mysterious ways,” he says.
“This was a miracle.”
MIRACLE OF LOVE
The Stottlemires see their love story as a bit of a miracle as
well. One frigid day in 2011, Allen — a Special Forces veteran
— rode his Harley to a Maryland bar. Under a beanie and
weather-protective leather, his face was barely visible when a
woman approached, pointing to Polly across the room, hinting
that he should ask her friend to dance.
One look was all it took.
“When I offered to buy Polly a drink, she asked for a soda,”
he says. “I was drinking soda, too. What are the odds of that
happening at a bar?”
The next day he called to ask her out; she was too busy.
Allen offered to be her transportation.
“We drove all over Baltimore,” he said. “It blossomed into
friends, then best friends, then amazing friends, then more.”
The couple married eight months later in the U.S. Virgin
Islands, giving them a taste for the tropics that led to their
move to Florida in 2014.
HELPING OTHERS
Despite having been raised to attend church, both had
left in the midst of various life crises. They had four children
between them. They began to attend again. Eventually,
they helped their church minister to the homeless. When
they moved south, they brought the desire to help others
with them.
Allen says that while not every church reaches out to
certain people, they found one that did. With another couple,
they ministered at Bryant Park in Lake Worth every Thursday,
grilling food for perhaps 60 homeless men and women.
In case law enforcement tried to disperse the gathering, “We
called it breakfast with our family and friends,” he says.
LIFE’S STORY IN INK
Polly points out that Christians often dwell on the things
they shouldn’t be doing instead of what they should be doing.
“There’s basically two things: Love God, love your neighbor,”
she says. “And neighbor is everybody. The dirty and
undesirable. Alcoholics and addicts, the homeless.”
Relatively new to Port St. Lucie, having arrived in 2020, the
Stottlemires attend Christ Fellowship Church and dream of
organizing a Christian motorcycle group.
“My tattoos tell stories about my life and open doors for
talking to young people and the homeless,” Allen says.
“People need love and acceptance. They’ve had trauma — it
didn’t start with addiction. I’ve been there. With my wife’s
help and with God, I’m still alive and kicking.” >>
26 Port St. Lucie Magazine
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On the Nov. 10 airing of The Price Is Right, Polly delighted Drew Carey with a T-shirt she made commemorating his first appearance on The Tonight Show.