Things I Could Never Tell You

It's funny when you say to yourself "I'm not going to tell anyone" but since you can never keep a secret, you tell the one person that you were keeping this from in the first place. You think it's out of trust and love and wanting to be honest but you find that it will actually drive you two apart and actually make you worse than you are. Since this "secret" is out there, it's staying out there but I want to make sure that anyone who reads this knows that a secret is a secret and nobody needs to know. Alexander Hamilton, a very successful man, on the ten dollar bill, American founding father, defender of the U.S. Constitution, writer of the Federalist Papers and the Reynolds Pamphlet, had many intimate affairs with Mrs. Maria Reynolds. After being sold out to her husband, Mr. James Reynolds, Alexander swore to himself that nobody needed to know. He even had to make many large payments to Mr. Reynolds to keep it a secret. Unfortunately, important members of the U.S. government and Hamilton's, more-or-less enemies, Vice President Thomas Jefferson, Secretary James Madison, and Senator Aaron Burr, found he had been making these payments. Alexander had to confess and prove that he was not guilty of stealing from the government. The four men agreed to keep it a secret. A short while after this event, Alexander Hamilton publicly published the Reynolds Pamphlet, explaining his sex scandal with Maria Reynolds and his payments to James Reynolds. This ruined his career, his relationships, his life.