We are gathered here today, to eat chocolate and open the bottle you gave me years ago.

It is a special occasion because we manufactured one. Today.

Before the sun shrinks and the ice turns hot tea cold, we must toast.

That is, we should drink to something good which we wish for all great people.

And aren’t all people great? No. But give’em all something good.

Generous, grateful and amused by the weird way we take a long time to learn obvious lessons.

But then, the obvious, rarely made for a good story while waiting for the plane to take off.

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