Man moves furniture so his wife can make snow angels for 29 Instagram followers

Now that's dedication.
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Anne-Marie Tomchak
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Christmas is a time to show our nearest and dearest just how much we love them. But some people really know how to go the distance.

Case in point Taylor Burkhalter's mum and dad.

Baurkhalter paid tribute to his folks on Christmas eve with a tweet captioned: "I’ve learned more about love from watching my dad reluctantly rearrange the living room so my mom can make snow angel boomerangs for her 29 Instagram followers than anything else in life."

The adorable tweet has since been retweeted over 200 thousand times. The level of dedication was not lost on people:

Unsurprisingly Taylor's mom Libby, a personal trainer and health coach based in Louisana, has gained a helluva lot of Instagram followers.

Her page had 9,704 followers and rising at the time of publication.

Nice work.

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Anne-Marie Tomchak

Anne-Marie Tomchak is the UK Editor of Mashable, where she heads up the company's operations from London. She has spent over a decade reporting and presenting for national and international broadcasters including the BBC, RTE, Deutsche Welle, American Public Media and NPR. In 2013, Anne-Marie launched the social media investigative unit BBC Trending. During her time at the corporation, she also developed the mobile video offering on the BBC News app and fronted live social broadcasts. Anne-Marie is a leading digital media voice contextualizing the role of technology in the modern world. She has made a number of feature length TV documentaries for Ireland's national broadcaster RTE in her capacity as UK Editor for Mashable, including ‘Cloud Control: Who Owns Your Data?’ (Nov 2016) about big data and digital fingerprints and “Will A Robot Steal My Job” (Nov 2017) about the impact of AI and automation on the workforce. The Irish Times listed her as '30 Irish Women You Need to Know' for International Women's Day and she is one of Silicon Republic's '30 Incredible Irish people leading a European invasion'.

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