It's yours...
Actually it's mine. I'm 36 today. I'm going to find a shadowy cafe and write until I start seeing ghosts. Then I'm going to eat some cake and ice cream, and battle the boy over LAN.
It will be a good day, I think.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power.