Survivor castaway Frannie Marin has revealed the juicy details about her reunion with Matt Blankinship at Ponderosa once Frannie was voted out of the game and joined the jury.

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Frannie, a 23-year-old research coordinator from Minnesota who currently resides in Cambridge, MA, was voted out of Survivor 44 on Night 19 of the game through a 5-2-1 vote instead of Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt and Danny Massa after she revealed herself to be a challenge beast.

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"Right after I got voted out, I was like, 'Well, that's a bummer. This journey's come to a close.' But then immediately after that, I was filled with this devilish joy. I was like, 'Hang on, I've got a good week at Ponderosa with Matt. This is an excellent honeymoon for us!'" Frannie shared with Entertainment Weekly.

"And so the boat ride home was like five percent sad, 25 percent thinking about Indian food, and the other 70 percent was Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt."

Frannie said she wished someone had a camcorder to film her reunion with Matt.

"It was joyous," she gushed.

"[Kane Fritzler] and [Brandon Cottom] and Matt weren't really sure what my energy was going to be when I came into Ponderosa, right? Sometimes people are devastated. But I ran up the boardwalk and I was like, 'I'm giving everybody hugs! We're here to have a good time!'" Frannie recalled of her big entrance.

"And, of course, I literally ran like a slow-motion movie and jumped into Matt's arms and we had the best hug. And then we talked until like 4AM and it was so amazing."

Frannie shared how she and Matt are "literally two dorky magnets" who "cannot separate from each other."

"It's such a beautiful thing," she noted.

Frannie inadvertently sealed Matt's fate in the game, but he previously told EW that he felt no disappointment or resentment towards her for playing the game as hard as she could.

At the Immunity Challenge on Day 14, the merged tribe was divided into two teams of five, with Matt and Frannie on opposing teams.

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Survivor host Jeff Probst explained that in a new twist, the winner on each team would receive immunity while the person to outlast everyone would win immunity for his or her entire team.

Once Frannie secured safety for herself, she could've thrown the endurance challenge to Brandon, which would've saved Matt on the other side -- but she chose to try her hardest and win it all.

Matt was therefore left vulnerable and without allies on the losing team, and he was voted out at Tribal Council hours later.

Matt shared with EW last month how he and Frannie are "still dating" and "going strong," and Frannie confirmed in her interview that's still the case.

In fact, Frannie suggested she's confident in herself and her relationship is very healthy because Matt has already seen her at her worst.

"What's good about it is now we're still dating and he's seen me really dirty, right? I don't have to be like, 'Oh no, I'm embarrassed. I don't have my makeup on' around him. We've been to that low point, and everything is just uphill from there... You make it work. Love finds a way," Frannie said.

Once Frannie got to take a shower, brush her teeth, and put on some fresh clothes, she added, "I'll tell you, the romance accelerated rapidly once we were both a little cleaner."

Frannie explained how she and Matt are trying to make a long-distance relationship work, which she thinks is possible because he's "such a great guy."

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She elaborated of her man, "He's so kind. He's so patient and he's the best person to do long distance with. I feel like we just communicate so well and we're making it work."

Frannie also dropped the following bombshell: "I'm considering making a little cross-country move in the near future, but don't tell anyone."

Going back to her Individual Immunity Challenge win that resulted in Matt's elimination, Frannie said it "of course" crossed her mind to drop out of the challenge so both she and Matt would be safe.

"But I think what got lost a little is Matt was doing really, really well socially... I was not actually that concerned for him," Frannie explained.

"Also, I mean, I love Matt to death, but boy, when he lost his two votes at the very beginning, I was like, 'Okay, so I'm like pulling this man through this game.' There comes a point where I'm like, 'You need to hold yourself up. And I thought he could make it through the vote.'"

Frannie also thought dropping out to save Matt -- which she believes wouldn't have looked believable since she clearly felt "solid" in that challenge -- would've put a bigger target on her back going forward.

Castaways were already viewing Frannie and Matt as a power couple, after all.

But Frannie admitted she "broke down" and "cried for hours" once Matt was voted out of the game.

"I blamed myself for days... But getting to reunite with Matt and having him assure me that it's okay, he's proud of himself, he's proud of me assuaged my worries a lot," Frannie said.

"And it's something that now, looking back, I just feel proud of myself."

On winning multiple challenges this season and coming across as a physical threat, Frannie said, "I literally before the game cried because I thought that I was the weakest woman there. I completely surprised myself... I just loved competing. I could not help myself."

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And Frannie said she'd definitely play Survivor again if given the opportunity.

"I would relive every single moment. I would do it all again. I would do it tomorrow. I would leave this Zoom call and do it right now if I was asked," Frannie concluded.




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