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"you are my sunshine.
my only sunshine."

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alexander grabs the baby bundle from his wife, eliza, with a stupidly big grin.

"oh, philip!" alexander coos, making the baby giggle.

"your smile is like the sun. so bright and happy. no, you outshine the sun! right, betsey?" He nuzzles Philip's freckled cheek.

"oh, we have created a masterpiece." alexander laughs genuinely for what felt like the first time since the beginning of the war.

eliza smiles at his words proudly, nodding before walking off.

"one day, pip, you will run all of manhatten. no, you'll run the country!" philip giggles, reaching out and touching alexander's face.

"you'll blow us all away!" alexander holds him up to the sky.

"alexander! come down here! you have a letter from south carolina!" eliza calls from downstairs.

alexander scrunches his nose at pip, making the baby coo before cradling philip tightly in his arms and walked briskly down the stairs.

"it's from john laurens? i'll read it later." he smiles.

"no. it's from his father."

that's weird. why would john's father send him something? Alex furrows his eyebrows in confusion. "could you please read it?"

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