Not speeches, really, but as a pastor, I delivered sermons most Sundays and offered eulogies for many people.
My only brush with the stage was in junior high, when I played Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. As I recall, I was ready to deliver a performance for the ages, but somehow a couple pages of dialogue got skipped, and with them most of my lines. So, that was that.
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