21.

Dear Noah,

Life has been quite the ride. My twentieth year on the planet could not have been more unbelievable than you probably would have liked. I’ve (almost, just a few more days) made it, somewhat intact, to 21.

For as long as I recognized that I’d eventually get here, it still doesn’t feel like this moment is actually real. There were quite a few times in the last 20 years where I questioned whether I’d make it to this…