Birthday plan: Hiding if Biden doesn’t win

No gifts needed, just don’t want my 39th birthday to be like 2016 Election Day

Shamontiel L. Vaughn
We Need to Talk
Published in
6 min readNov 1, 2020
I have kept all of my birthday cards since elementary school. I have four ginormous letter boxes full of old letters and cards for every holiday and special occasion. (Photo credit: Shamontiel L. Vaughn)

When you’re under the age of 18, having a birthday after Election Day means absolutely nothing. I’m a holiday baby, too, so when I wasn’t thanking a few veterans in my family, I was loudly bragging about how banks and post offices closed to celebrate my…

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Shamontiel L. Vaughn
We Need to Talk

When I'm not writing about news, politics and relationships on "We Need to Talk" or cracking jokes on "Tickled," find me on Substack. Visit Shamontiel.com