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“The life of twenty-seven-year-old Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer of and lead actor in the new musical “In the Heights”””about the ups and downs of the residents of a block in Washington Heights””seemed pretty serene the other day as he did some errands in the old neighborhood. Miranda, who is trim and dark-haired, with a goatee, and is as eager-beaverish as they come, lives on upper Broadway, a few blocks from his parents’ house, across the street from Inwood Hills Park, where he was born.
“I’m the luckiest guy in the whole world,” he said, taking a chair at his local barbershop, where he was getting a shape-up on his goatee. “My dad, Luis Miranda, is a Democratic political consultant and lobbyist, and founder of the Spanish-English weekly Manhattan Times. My sister Luz is an executive at the paper. My dad and my mother”””a child psychologist, also named Luz””“encouraged me my whole entire life to do what I wanted. So I found places””Wesleyan, for one””that had people who felt as passionately as I did about things like Hitchcock movies. “
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