50th birthday · $7 · 2-3 minutes

Fifty.
The weight one.

Fifty has its own weight. The good toast honors that without going maudlin.

Example output

Half a century, Sam. Hard to write that. The Sam I met thirty years ago at college was, frankly, a kid. So was I. Both of us had to grow into something. Sam grew into the version of him that — and this is a fact I am stating, not a compliment — is the most reliable person in any room he is in. For all of us in this room, that has been the through-line. Sam is the one who shows up. Birthdays. Weddings. Hospitals. Funerals. He shows up, every time. So: to fifty. To showing up. Cheers, Sam.

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Will it be cringe?
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