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* Angelica Hamilton, daughter of AlexanderHamilton, suffered a mental breakdown from which she never recovered, after her older brother Philip was killed in a duel.
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\\\'\\\'\\\'Real life\\\'\\\'\\\' section:
* According to \\\'\\\'Three Cups of Tea\\\'\\\', Greg Mortenson founded the Central Asia Institute to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan after he attempted to climb K2 to fulfill a promise made to his younger sister, Christa, who died at a young age. He ended up ill and stranded in a poor Pakistani village after losing the trail, and after the residents nursed him back to health, he promised to return with the materials to build a school for the children there, which he eventually did.
** \\\'\\\'This doesn\\\'t make him a cynic at all.\\\'\\\'
* Argentinian tennis player Juan Martín del Potro dedicates each of his victories to his older sister, who passed away in an accident when they were young.
** \\\'\\\'ditto, no cynicism here\\\'\\\'

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