"Just because you didn't do marriage well doesn't mean you can't do divorce fabulously." That's something my mother-in-law said to me when her son and I were ending our young, impetuous, and ultimately-not-right-for-us marriage. It stuck with me through the years. These sweet images from Brittany Peck's wedding have struck a chord with families across the Internet, and they seem to be getting that very same lesson about "doing divorce well" through to millions.The photographer got a clue something unusual was about to happen.Delia Blackburn, an Ohio-based photographer, was snapping pictures at the nuptials, as you do. She described to WKYC what happened when the father of the bride, Todd Bachman, approached her."He said, 'I'm going to do something special, just be ready.'"Before Bachman finished walking his daughter down the aisle, he turned around in the direction of his daughter's stepdad, who was also in attendance.Then Brittany's stepdad details what happened next:“And he came up to me and reached out and grabbed my hand and he said, 'Hey, you've worked for this as hard as I have.' He said, 'You deserve this as much as I do. You're gonna help us walk OUR daughter down the aisle.' At that point, I had no clue what was going on."— Todd Cendrosky, stepfather of Brittany PeckTodd B. looks like a dad on a mission — to be the coolest guy ever.“I got weak in the knees and everything — I couldn't have had anything better in my life. That was THE most important thing in my life."— Brittany's stepdadTodd C. is like, "What is even happening right now?"Todd Bachmann explains his last-minute decision like this:“It hasn't always been peaches and cream, by any stretch of the imagination. ... There's no better way to thank somebody than to assist me walking my — walking OUR daughter — down the aisle."And that's how you do it, folks. Brittany herself was pleased with the outcome.The bride sent a message from her honeymoon to WKYC, saying, "We've seen it all, been through it all, but at the end of the day we're all happy."Divided families know that love isn't a finite thing—there's enough to go around.This article originally appeared nine years ago.

A stunning photo of a Black woman confronting police at a Black Lives Matter rally blazed across social media, with some calling it a touchstone image that will stand as a powerful symbol for many years to come.The photo, captured by Jonathan Bachman of Reuters, comes from a Black Lives Matter rally in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on July 9, 2016 . Police in full riot armor are shown descending on the poised, well-dressed woman, apparently about to be cuffed.Her name is Ieshia Evans, then a 35-year-old nurse from Brooklyn, NY who had not been to a protest rally before. She was arrested for blocking a public roadway shortly after the image was taken.DeRay McKesson, one of the most prominent voices of the Black Lives Matter movement, was also arrested at the rally. McKesson was released after 16 hours in a cell; he told the New York Times that he felt Saturday's mass arrests were unlawful as the protesters were peacefully assembled on the side of the highway."What we saw in Baton Rouge was a police department that chose to provoke protesters to create, like, a context of conflict they could exploit," said McKesson. Over 100 other protesters were also arrested.The protests were a direct response to the killing of 37-year-old Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge on July 5, 2016 after two officers shot him repeatedly outside a convenience store. Shortly after Sterling's death, a school cafeteria worker, Philando Castile was shot and killed by police in Falcon Heights, Minnesota while reaching for paperwork in his car. And at a protest rally in Dallas following Falcon Heights, five police officers were killed by snipers.The violence over those few days has proved to be an intensely raw and revealing piece of American history. Bachman's photo will surely be one of the images that lasts. When you see this image you think thank God America won the Cold War and defeated tyranny\n(JONATHAN BACHMAN/REUTERS)pic.twitter.com/ryVd3lGqIw — Karl Sharro (@Karl Sharro) 1468227689 This article originally appeared seven years ago.

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