turn down the flame on the shame-thrower.

Tony Stark was born in 1973 to Howard and Maria Stark, and their lives were completed and perfect and for a few minutes the world actually stopped turning on its proper axis to just sit and look in awe at what it had spent the last four point six billion years evolving toward. It let out a happy little sigh and then had to get back to work, but for a moment, everyone noticed.

Things would continue in that general fashion throughout the rest of his life.

But we can probably just hit the highlights.
( (1-732): swear to god - 'it seemed like a good idea at the time' is gonna be on your epitaph )