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This is Benjamin Franklin's signature, I'm tracing over it. I'm getting to know Benjamin
Franklin in a way that you can't just by reading a book about him. What I'm picking up is,
ok, this is a very careful man, he's literary, he's very literary. He has a tremendous power
of concentration, very, very high ideals, humble, exacting. And in this particular case
look at this under, this flourish underneath this signature. He had to use his whole arm
to do this. I think it comes up around like this, yeah it comes up around like this and
around, and loops around just, it's a flourish, the way I showed you the flourish before,
o.k. this is a very, very emphatic end to his signature. So what I know, knowing what
he signed, knowing about the document that he signed and just going over his handwriting
is that this man knew that he was taking his life in his hands when he signed this.