This event was really set up for the writing students at Pitt. The past winners are conducting student workshops that aren't for the public. We wanted to provide wide access to the writers for the students' sake.

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I advised them to get it. If there's a bat flying around your house and you are suspicious that it had been there earlier, then you shouldn't waste time. It's very sad that the county didn't come up with it. But I can understand them sticking to protocol.

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It's a reasonable start. Once we get rolling we can look at expanding faster.

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We appreciate everything Houston is doing for us. We don't want to cause problems, but we have to live, too.

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Well, they didn't leave me much. The other few things that we did have left, they came back and got those.

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We already have teachers asking whether there will be a follow-up.

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You know, because of the way I was raised, you have to stay strong. It's only material things.

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