Who Tells Your Story?

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When my husband Scott and I went to see Hamilton, I was sobbing at the end.

Not because of what Alexander Hamilton had done for our country.

But because of what his wife Eliza did.

Hamilton ends with the song Who Lives Who Dies, which was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda but is based on a book by Ron Chernow. The lyrics describe what happened after Alexander Hamilton’s death —…