In 2016 we drove to the coast with forty dollars and one cassette. It got stuck in the player for six years. We never fixed it.
He said: "Wrong turns are the scenic route, statistically."
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I still order two coffees.
I drink both.
How to Write a Eulogy for a Friend
Friend eulogies fail by becoming resumes: loyal, funny, kind. Your friend was not an adjective list. Write one night — the one you both cited for years — and let the room see exactly what is gone.
How to write it: three rules of restrained prose
- Reconstruct one specific night: the year, the place, the wrong turn, what it cost, what you laughed at.
- Quote them once. Every friendship has a sentence that gets repeated at parties. Say it in their words.
- End with the habit that won't update: the unanswered text you still send, the extra portion you still order.
Pick the "eulogy" mode, put "the friend you'd call at any hour" in the first field, and let the restraint do the rest.