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Our families have a strong religious faith, and it made our engagement and marriage difficult at times some family have even severed ties with us.
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Veeda and I realize how blessed we are to live in such a diverse community, but at the same time understand that there are others who aren’t so lucky. Hopefully, our marriage will be an example to our future children and the younger generation in the family that it doesn’t matter who you pray to, where you were born or the color of your skin, that love is love." - Brian, who lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Veeda "Loving Day is a time to not only celebrate those who paved the way before us but to show our families, friends and society that our love matters more than bigotry or misunderstanding. "The word I'd use to describe us? 'Warriors.' We've gone through several seasons of transition through our 11+ years of marriage and remained a solid team through them all. "At the risk of sounding cliche about Loving Day, it's important to recognize and celebrate the simple power of love. Two people who just wanted to be left alone to love their family fought for that right and changed it for us all. Neither my husband or I were intentionally seeking to be in a 'mixed race' relationship, but we, too, simply found each other and fell in love. I'm grateful to not fear consequences such as jail time as a result. The ruling in that case happened like 5 minutes ago! As much as people want to argue that racism is no longer real or happened lifetimes ago, we've had to explain a reality to our children that existed not long before Mommy was born.