Born on the Fourth of July

Lots of people celebrate their birthdays on the fourth of July. It’s just that I’m fortunate enough to have so many parallelisms – and so many idiosyncrasies, among many other ironies – that come with a very funny birthday. It’s hard enough to live up to the expectations of everyone you know, so much so that you flush most of those expectations down the drain and do things your way. It’s definitely hard enough to know that even at your age, you still have a lot of growing up to do. A year