Camden Watts will graduate from high school in 1999. Camden enjoys staying busy with difficult courses, running cross country, swimming, playing soccer

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  and dancing. She writes and draws for her school newspaper and for her nationally acclaimed literary magazine, Opus. Her best work comes from experiences written late in the evening.

  Digby Wolfe had a writing career of fifty years that has been divided equally between theatre and the media. British-born Digby Wolfe is perhaps best known for being the co-creator of the landmark television hit, Laugh-In. A multiple Emmy nominee and winner, Digby is now the tenured Professor of Play and Screenwriting at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

  Becca Woolf is a junior in high school and wrote this story at age fourteen after her first heartbreak. Poetry is her passion and she is presently working on a collection of poems based on teen angst, which she hopes to publish soon. Besides being a writer, she is also an aspiring actress.

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