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Here's to the husbands who won you, the losers who lost you, and the lucky bastards who've yet to meet you.

— Nick Mercer ‧ The Wedding Date

Three stemmed glasses, one tipped sideways, rest on a round gold-edged mirror against pale peach.
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This is a toast with a cheeky three-part structure: the ones who won someone over, the ones who blew it, and the ones still to come. It celebrates the person being toasted by ranking everyone else, with affectionate insults thrown in for good measure.

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