28/30: Excerpt from The Toast

"We all walk this earth - forging our paths, mending unspeakable pains, getting dirt under our fingernails, feeling mountainous with strength and tiny in the vastness. We all have this in common and those of us in this room have one more thing in common: we have the privilege of sharing our lives with [them]. I have known of their love from the moment i drew my first breath. I'm lucky that way....but together, together they are a fierce and peaceful force of nature...I am who I am because of them, plain and simple. my blood and skin, from their blood and skin.... Woman extraordinaire and legendary barber: hear hear."