Dear Caoimhin,
There is something profoundly dignified in how you’ve carried yourself through these years, the understudy whose performances belied the prefix. In an era where patience is mislabelled as passivity, you proved that waiting for your turn can be a triumph in itself.
Eddie Gibbs
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