Margaret Atwood marks #NationalBoyfriendDay, restores our faith in love
Photo, @MargaretAtwood/Twitter.
Depending on your relationship status and/or level of tolerance for public displays of affection, you either embrace #NationalBoyfriendDay or pray for midnight.
Among the photos of snuggling couples and cheeky nods to the boyfriend who will never let you down (pizza), Margaret Atwood offered her own sweet contribution.
The celebrated novelist tweeted salutations to her husband, author Graeme Gibson.
The two met in 1970 at a party for mutual friend Milton Acorn, who had just been snubbed for the Governor General's Award for poetry — as had Atwood. Gibson had been overlooked in the fiction category. "I thought your book should have won the Governor General’s Award," Atwood reportedly told Gibson. The rest, as they say, is history.
More than four decades later, it seems Atwood is still Gibson's biggest fan. She even doubled down on her #NationalBoyfriendDay gush with a vintage pic of "The Gibbo."
Three cheers to anyone who still calls their partner of 45 years "boyfriend."
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