Immensely so . . .
- That I’ve grown up living so close to my maternal grandmother.
- For the social life I lead during my first year in New York City, which fulfilled a wish I thought would never come true.
- For the gift of writing well.
- That it is not in my nature to harbor empty regrets.
- For the privileges afforded to me by my race and socioeconomic status, and more importantly:
- That my parents raised me with a consciousness of racial and socioeconomic divides, and taught me to take responsibility for those privileges, not to take them for granted.
- For the bigger bedroom.
- For the guy who taught me to say ‘no.’
- That I’m only deaf in one ear and not two.
- That I live in a country where we are free to make fun of politicians.
And for you. Of course, for you.
