And life went on. They got married, they fought, they made up, they came to weddings and brought gifts, people still talked ill about how odd it was for him to 'stray' and how cunning it was of her to 'trap' him but that hardly mattered to them. Or to us. This sounds far too optimistic to people who have faced harsher backlashes for loving who you love and being who you are but as we move together as a generation that isn't simply moulded by their parents but exposed to more than your own community, there seems to be a change in what we see as ethical and what we perceive as how others need to be treated - especially those different from us.
On this International Day of Tolerance, here's to hoping for a future where intolerance doesn't exist and what little you face - you can afford to brush off.
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