Ben Franklin’s Gigantic Last Bet
The Stacking Benjamins Show
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Franklin's Myths
Franklin's wife, deborah, was a skilled tradeswoman and real estate vestment. She helped him start his print shop in philadelphia long before the American dollar became official currency. Franklin wrote an autobiography when they had been apart for almost 30 years. He left eight thousand letters behind that we know of. And if you delve into those, you can find correspondence between deborah and franklin which is very loving and very tender.
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