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Alexander The Great Expansion Short Story

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A bastard, orphan, son of a whore and Scotsman moves into his college dorm. After living in the Caribbean for his whole life, Alexander has moved to New York to attend Columbia University. With his father leaving them when he was young, his mother worked hard to receive their blessings. Alexander had learned to do the same in her memory.

When Alexander was only thirteen, she had died. That winter she had been working from the time Alexander woke for school to the time he came home and then she worked a second job from evening to the very early morning. That winter she had been to poor and busy to get a flu shot. With a frail immune system from long working hours of labor, little food, and too little hours of sleep she got caught a horrible flu …show more content…

He belonged with bigger people who had just as equal purpose as him. As his last year of high school start to come to a close with millions of exams and dozens of college applications to write, the neighborhood started collecting money so he could afford to comfortably move to an American city of his choice.

His graduate day had been as heavenly as his dreams of his mother Alexander occasionally still had. He had graduated top of his class and gave a length speech that brought people to tears and eventually to sleep. After everyone had received their diploma, the head-town-council member had given Alexander a box with the couple thousand dollars the town had gathered for him. Not expecting anything, Alexander broke down in tears and hugged to council member.

When he returned to the orphanage he was still living in, he found he received an acceptance letter from Columbia University in New York.
Excited by this news, he started packing all the important things he had that he wouldn't for the next couple months until students were allowed to move into their

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