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- ↑ Original Broadway Cast of "Hamilton" & Renée Elise Goldsberry – Satisfied , retrieved 2021-10-19
- ↑ "Hear the Decemberists' 'Ben Franklin's Song' From 'Hamilton' Project". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
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