Promises of an Unwed Father

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2006 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Ta-Nehisi Coates remembers the nine months between when his girlfriend told him she was pregnant and when he, a young, unemployed college dropout, became a father.

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