What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary? - Jonathan Lethem

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The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.

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Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips.

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You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

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