How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman drop from the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean of poverty and impoverished squalor grow up to be a hero and a scholar? The ten dollar, been a father without a father, got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being self-centered, by being fourteen. They placed him in charge of a trading charter, and every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away across the waves, he struggled to keep his guard up. And sad, he was longing for something to be a part of, the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or bought it. Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned, the man in his house was driven down the drain. Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain, and he wrote his own refrain, a testament to his pain.