![]() Jean began writing for children in the 1950s. You have always been a real American.” Yet when the family returned to Pennsylvania and Jean went to school, she often felt like a stranger among her classmates, just as she had felt in China. She remembers asking her mother just before her 12th birthday if she would suddenly become a “true blue, authentic American.” Impatiently her mother answered, “Don’t be silly Jean. Her one solace was to sing “My country ‘tis of thee…” quietly when Forbes and the other children sang “God Save the King.” ![]() Jean often felt apart from her schoolmates in the British School she went to, particularly when provoked by Ian Forbes, a bully who loved to torment her. ![]() Even when he became a loyal patriot in the country he came to love, he still felt the “outsider” at times, especially when his critics attacked him as one. The Hamilton family was looked down on for various reasons, and Alexander felt apart from his schoolmates on Nevis. ![]() Jean and Alexander shared more as children than Jean probably realized until she started reading about him. ![]()
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