pencil shavings
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Last published Thu, Aug 8, 2019
None of us know what we need.
And it's this agonizing, unfailing plight of humanity that keeps us from grasping some inkling of who we are. Matt Ko, with his two-dimensionally perfect life, sure doesn't know; Peter Westin and his sarcasm haven't the slightest clue; And Sam Hadds, wise as she is, can't find the answer.
So what happens when a summer camp writing project breaks down the paper thin personas they've built?
What happens when three teens, two weeks, and one story turn their lives inside out - and makes them tell us what the stereotypes can't?
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