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It seemed to Joan Plummer that the year of 2005 was just one long moment of bliss. It was New Years Eve, December 31, 2004. Joan’s family was having a party at her grandmother’s house to celebrate the New Year. Everyone had eaten their chili and was sitting quietly in the living room watching T.V. On the couch were her younger cousins, asleep, still wearing their party hats. Joan stood at the doorway to the room, the only open spot. For several minutes she lost herself staring into space, so ...

I am one of a race of 3,000. My tribe, the Cowlitz once spread from Mt. Rainer to Vancouver, Washington. Today, everyone around me wakes up every morning in Cowlitz County and crosses the Cowlitz River on their way to work, but few think of, or are even know of, the Cowlitz people. My many-times-great grandfather, Ska-nee-wah, the last great chief of the Cowlitz lies only a ten minutes north of me, buried not at Coffin Rock, in his canoe, but in a Catholic graveyard at St. Mary’s Missionary S...

Act III At a sitting room in Normandy. Lancelot, Bridgette, Edwin, Philippa, and Robin walk in to an empty sitting room. William: (enters) Lancelot! How great to see you again. I would have thought that one try at the Holy Grail would have been good enough for you? Bridgette: Holy Grail, what about the Holy Grail? We are looking for Avalon. William: Avalon? What’s Avalon? Edwin: What do you mean what’s Avalon? This is where Philippa told us to come. She said to talk to Mary and Sarah and they...

Act II Scene One The next day, outside. Robin, Philippa, and Edwin are about to leave. They have a bag each and are in traveling clothes. Merlin is waiting with them. Edwin: We are going on a quest! We are about the leave all the lands we have ever known to seek glory! Robin: Because that worked out so well the first time that I did that. Philippa: But surely you want to see the world and all the wonders that it contains, to adventure into the unknown kingdoms to seek the knowledge that comes...