We move through stanzas of praise and gratitude — like magical spells and incantations — to the heroes, encouraging influences, and sources of strength in our lives:

Our teachers, who believed in us and taught us tough but essential lessons;

Our parents, who sheltered us and provided us with our connections to the past;

Our faith, in a Divine entity or an essential human kindess, or something else;

The friends and mentors we've found along the way, who share our blood or our sense of responsibility;

And we raise this last glass to them.

Grape juicium leviOH-sa!

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