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Valedictory Speech By C. S. Lewis
A valedictory speech

Ladies and gentlemen, dear family and friends, teachers. My fellow students, we did it!
Many years passed as we watched others graduate, imagining ourselves to their places. And now, after three years, here we are. Three years of lack of sleep, agonizing over too hard homework assignments and not really knowing what we were doing. However those three years were not that terrible after all. There were moments of joy, laughter, and most importantly moments of true friendship.
As C.S. Lewis said: “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.” I think that in our case that’s true. Reminiscing all of our time together, I can’t help but laugh how young, excited and eager we
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