1) My mom.

2) Emily Dickinson

3) Hercule Poirot (and Agatha Christie for creating him)

4) Mrs. King (my former AP US Teacher)

5) Mrs. Hall (my former AP English Teacher/SAT Team Coach)

6) Mr. Bell (my former Junior Engligh Teacher/Forensics Team Coach)

7) Mrs. Bell (Mr. Bell's wife, who for some reason knew always knew when I needed a smile.)

8) Mrs. Ward (my former Sophmore English/Teacher Cadet teacher. I couldn't say enough about this woman to do justsice.)

9) Mrs. Mason (my former 7th/8th grade English teacher. Sensing a pattern yet?)

10) Angel

11) Chris (this brilliant boy I went to high school with. He refused to check his race on his application papers because he didn't want to get in as a brilliant african american male. He wanted to merely get in.)

12) Monica (yes, the BoB-ette)

13) Pam (again, the BoB-ette)

14) Jamie (faux-pas.dland)