Just a few days left, and she's done with Burrillville High School. Laura's going to CCRI next year for the high school-college program. She has already registered for classes, including a law and evidence class.
She has one goal that the old Laura didn't have.
"I'm going to write a book," she says, with an air of defiance.
But that's a lot of work.
For now, she wants to have fun — "a schoolgirl summer," her father says.
What her parents want for Laura is that she will be strong and able to confront everything that comes her way.
They hope she will find the kind of loving relationship that they have.
Most of all, they want her to be able to take care of herself.
Kate Bramson
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Kate Bramson, a 1993 graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, has been on the Providence Journal reporting staff since August, 2002. Prior to joining the Journal, she was the education writer for the Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota. From October, 1995 to Feburary, 1997, she was news editor for Budapest Week and The Budapest Sun in Hungary.
Bob Thayer
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Bob Thayer is an award-winning feature photographer who has been on the Providence Journal staff since 1978. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College and the Columbia School of Journalism.
Mimi Burkhardt
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Mimi Burkhardt has served in several roles since joining the Providence Journal's copy desk in 1980. She has been night metro editor, an assistant city editor, and a projects editor. For the past three years she has been a training editor, working closely with the newspaper's two-year interns and other reporters on the state staff. It was in her role as a consultive editor she worked with Kate Bramson on the award-winning story.
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