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The above passage might look innocuous, or at the very least like the rough draft of a seventh grade English paper, but with the help of the latest Hyperspectral technology, historians have been able to see what lies beneath dun dun duuun.
In the heady days after deciding King George was being, “totally unfair…he won’t even drop us off at the mall AND he took our cell phones…” (WARNING: American grievances with Britain may have been changed to reflect a more modern audience), Thomas Jefferson penned one of the most famous, “I hate you. You aren’t my REAL father!” letters in history. In fact, he was in such a rush he either momentarily forgot he was no longer a subject, or actively wrote down the wrong word just for the cathartic release of erasing it with the word citizen. Either way, technology now shows that the concept of being a citizen was still gelling in the minds of colonies.
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