There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first — Teju Cole, Open City
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There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

— Teju Cole, Open City
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