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 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.