lin's dad posting groff reminds me of:

today was a fun day @/hachettebooks cause @/lin_manuel & i did promos for relentlessthebook.com and recordings for audiobook.

“I love how sensitive and caring Lin-Manuel is,” Luis says of his son. “He must have gotten that from his mom.” His son marvels at the productivity of his father. “I have a fraction of his work ethic,” Lin-Manuel says. “I still get a lot of s–t done with just that fraction, and I can’t imagine if I had the whole thing.”

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Some swearing aside, Lin-Manuel admits he was never much of a troublemaker (“I watched my sister fight my parents, with limited success”) and had zero interest in pursuing his father’s cutthroat world of politics. Instead, he threw himself into writing and composing. When he was accepted into Wesleyan University in Connecticut, he felt the responsibility to overachieve and aimed to treat his experience as an intense four-year residency.

“I watched my parents struggle to pay for my sister’s education and was keenly aware that my dad suddenly had three new jobs when I entered school,” he says. “She was studying to be an engineer. I’m a f—ing writer! So I remember thinking that I really had to leave with more than a degree.” Luis nods, recalling, “When my daughter told us that she wanted to take another class, my wife and I burst out crying. We had to save every month to make all my kids’ tuition payments.”

The extra effort was worth it: As a sophomore, Lin-Manuel wrote the first draft of In the Heights—which includes a close-to-home plotline involving a father trying to pay for his daughter’s Stanford University education—and continued to fine-tune it after graduation. “I saw it as an opportunity to create my dream show,” he says, “because there was nothing in the musical cannon with an all-Latino cast. It’s as simple and as complicated as writing what you know.”