I want you to know that I love you. I really do. This is not simply because it is 100 degrees in New York, right now. My flight is boarding, so I have to go. But I need you guys to know that you are adored. By me. We really need to get a room.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, and The Water Dancer.