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BJ’s This or That Challenge: Valentine’s Edition

“L” is for the way you’ll love this challenge

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Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash

Love is messy. It’s imperfect. Sometimes it’s downright rude, but ToT-ers know this already. We know that love is as love does, whatever that means. Valentine’s Day is for selling lame chocolates in lamer boxes, but you know what is cool?

Valentimes.

BJ has her own way to celebrate her favorite brand of messy, imperfect, impish love and she’d like to share it with the ToT-iverse.

The pedestal upon which Valentine’s Day rests makes more of us feel alone than loved.

Valentine’s Day needed a revamp. BJ showed up to give it one.

The first thing she did to stick it to the powers that fill department stores with every red and pink hue the day after Christmas was to change the name of the single, solitary day that nags, nay expects perfect, Hollywood, heart-shaped, over-priced, under-estimated love.

Goodbye, Valentine’s Day. Hello, Valentimes.

A big thank you to the one and only DOG, The Bounty Hunter, for misspeaking the day of love…

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Brett Jenae Tomlin
BJ’s This or That — The Gathering Table

Brett lives in Dallas with her partner and their dogs. She loves to write about living broadly and bravely with anxiety.