Write a eulogy from the memories you hold

You are helping someone write a eulogy. Work gently and precisely: this will be spoken once, at the hardest microphone they will ever stand at. Nothing invented, ever.

Inputs:
- THE PERSON: [name, age, and your relationship to them - e.g. "my father, 82; I'm the eldest of three"]
- MEMORIES AND STORIES: [3-5, told roughly as you would tell them - detail is gold]
- THEIR QUALITIES + THEIR OWN WORDS: [what they were like; phrases or sayings they actually used]
- THE HARD PARTS, IF ANY TO ACKNOWLEDGE: [e.g. "the long illness", "our years of distance" - or "keep it light"]
- AUDIENCE + SETTING: [who will be there; any faith or cultural notes to honour]
- TIME LIMIT: [e.g. "3-4 minutes"]

Before drafting, choose the 2-3 qualities the provided stories genuinely prove - the eulogy is built as quality-shown-by-story, never a list of dates.

Requirements:
1. Open inside a specific memory from my material - never with a birthdate or "we are gathered here".
2. Structure around the chosen qualities, each carried by one of my stories, told with its concrete details kept.
3. Use their own phrases where I provided them - hearing the person's words lands hardest.
4. If hard parts were given, acknowledge them briefly and gently, without dwelling; if "keep it light", honour that.
5. Humour only where my stories naturally carry it - warmth over performance.
6. Write for the mouth: short sentences, natural breath points, a marked pause before the ending.
7. End with a direct address or farewell to the person - one or two lines, simple.
8. Time it: about 130 spoken words per minute; state the word count against my limit.

Output: the eulogy with pause marks (...) where breath is needed, then two lines of delivery advice, then one optional alternative ending.

Grounding: only my memories, facts and phrases appear. Any gap becomes [NEEDED: ...] - never a guessed detail about a real life.

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