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How does a bastard orphan son of a whore and a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by Providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
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Anonymous 8w

The ten dollar founding father without a father got a lot farther by working a lot harder by being a lot smarter by being a self starter. By 14 they placed him in charge of a trading charter.

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Anonymous 8w

LMAO no, but no context this sounds crazy

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Anonymous 8w

nerd alert

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Anonymous 8w

What the hell are you talking about?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

I take it you’ve not listened to Hamilton

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

I mean that’s fair. Lmfao

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Go listen to Hamilton. It’s actually the first few lines to it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

It’s from the musical Hamilton. It’s pretty good.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

Realllllllll

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away, across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 8w

Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 8w

Then a hurricane came and devastation reigned, our man saw his future drip dripping down the drain

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Put a pencil to his temple, connected it his brain, and his wrote his first refrain; a testament to his pain

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man." took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came. And the world is gonna know your name. What's your name, man?"

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 8w

Alexander Hamilton My name is Alexander Hamilton And there’s a million things I haven’t done But just you wait, just you wait

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

When he was 10 his father split, full of it, debt ridden. Two year later, see Alex and his mother bed ridden, half dead sittin in their own sick, the scent thick

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

And Alex got better but his mother went quick 😔💔

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 8w

Moved in with his cousin the cousin committed suicide Left him with nothing but ruined pride, something new inside

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 8w

A voice saying “Alex you gotta fend for yourself” He started retreating and reading every treatise on the shelf

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

There would have been nothin left for someone less astute. He woulda been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution. Started workin, clerkin for his late mother’s landlord.

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 8w

Where!? I don’t see them

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 8w

Dumbass alert

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

Traded sugar cane and rum and all the things he can’t afford

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