Then a hurricane came and devestation reigned our man saw his future drip drippin down the drain he took a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain
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submitted by Lord Entropy, age 13, Who wants to know? (January 28, 2021 - 8:31 am)
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin [died]. Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside. A voice saying, "Alex you gotta fend for yourself"
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submitted by Princess Juniper, age 10, The eternal Forest (January 28, 2021 - 4:34 pm)
Dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean
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(January 27, 2021 - 11:34 am)
top top top top top top top top top and one more TOP
(January 27, 2021 - 2:29 pm)
By providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
(January 27, 2021 - 2:43 pm)
The ten dollar
founding father without a father
got a lot farther by working a lot harder by being a self-starter
by fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter
(January 27, 2021 - 5:01 pm)
and every day while slaves were being carted away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up.
(January 27, 2021 - 7:57 pm)
Inside he was longing for something to be a part of
the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow or barter
(January 27, 2021 - 10:56 pm)
Then a hurricane came and devestation reigned our man saw his future drip drippin down the drain he took a pencil to his temple connected it to his brain
(January 28, 2021 - 8:31 am)
EEK I LOVE HAMILTON I'VE MEMORIZED ALMOST THE ENTIRE MUSICAL
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And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain
Well the word got around, they said this kid is insane, man!
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland
(January 28, 2021 - 9:42 am)
Get your education don't forget from where (whence?) you came, and the world's gonna know your name--
what's your name man?
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
MY NAME IS ALEXANDER HAMILTON
THERE'S A MILLION THINGS I HAVEN'T DONE
BUT JUST YOU WAIT, JUST YOU WAAAAAIT
(January 28, 2021 - 11:17 am)
When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden
Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden
Half-dead sittin in their own sick, the scent thick
(And Alex got better but his mother went quick)
(January 28, 2021 - 3:57 pm)
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin [died]. Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside. A voice saying, "Alex you gotta fend for yourself"
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(January 29, 2021 - 9:37 am)
He started retreating and reading every treatice on the shelf...
There would've been nothing left to do for someone less astute
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