My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled a…

James A. Baldwin
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My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, Whose little boy are you? ✨ Letter from a Region in My Mind by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.
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