Letters from the hearth

Some toasts come with a request attached: “Please, no stories.” That person still deserves words. A sample:

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Every speech promises to tell an embarrassing story. I was asked not to. So here is the true part instead, kept short.

You two don't perform. You don't announce. You got married the way you do everything: quietly, on purpose, in a room that was exactly the right size and not one chair bigger.

And because I know you, I know what your quiet sounds like when it's happy. Tonight it's loud. I wanted the room to hear it too.

So: to the two of you. May it stay this quiet, this full, and this chosen. And may everyone else keep guessing.

[Raise your glass. Sit down before they start clapping.]

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That's the shape. Yours gets your names, your quiet, and the jokes only the two of you laugh at. First line free; whole piece $25 if it lands: [email protected]

The sentence a card can't carry. First line free. [email protected]

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The sentence a card can't carry. First line free. [email protected]