Tommy and I have been friends since we were seven, which means I've watched this man make bad decisions for longer than anyone else in this room. Rafael, for those wondering who's up here airing the evidence.
We grew up four houses apart on Delmar Street, and the summer we were ten we decided we'd build a treehouse in the oak behind his place. We had a hammer, a bucket of nails Tommy "borrowed" from his dad's garage, and no plan whatsoever. We got the floor up. We got one wall up. And then we got distracted by literally anything else, and that treehouse sat there half finished for the next fifteen years, one lonely wall pointing at the sky.
That's Tommy in a nutshell. Big vision, tremendous confidence, follow-through that depends entirely on whether it's dinner time. This is a man who signed us both up for Little League and then spent every game in right field picking dandelions. He once told our coach he was "conserving energy." We lost every game. He had a wonderful summer.
But here's what I've figured out standing up here. Tommy doesn't quit on the things that actually matter. He just waits for the right reason to finish them.
And then he met Grace. Grace, who is patient enough to love a man who starts a project a week, and sharp enough that he never gets away with it. I watched him become steadier around you. More finished, somehow. The wall finally got a second wall.
So here's to Tommy and Grace. To the two of you building something the rest of your lives, and to the one project my best friend is never, ever going to leave half done.
Cheers to the couple who finally got the roof on.
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