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Submitted to Contest #264
“What’s the word? What’s the damn word?”Although you could swear it is on the tip of your tongue, you’re standing, awkwardly silent, amidst the crowd; your speech suddenly interrupted by a blank spot just before its culmination. It’s not every day your best friend is marrying and it’s not every day you are invited to be the best man either, so how could a measly forgotten word stop your otherwise so heartfelt speech dead in its tracks? True, during the past few weeks you’ve been (on multiple occasions) reminded that a best man’s speech is on...
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