100 relatives, one marquee, and an unwritten speech. I've often been heard saying that this is a recipe for disaster, and this is exactly the predicament I found myself in on the morning of the Family Reunion/25th Wedding Anniversary for my parents. I suppose I was carried away with excitement from meeting so many new cousins, Uncles, Aunts, and long lost family friends in the preceding days that I hadn't put much thought into the speech. I hadn't even put pen to paper yet. But everything always works out, and this would be no exception - I figured. Anyway, it was with a certain high school/university familiarity that I found myself sitting in the empty house of my Grandma's recently deceased neighbour, on the morning of the Reunion, frantically scribbling down some of the thoughts about
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