March 1997 was the month that I disentagled myself from debt. I invited some friends along, put on my cap and gown, then deposited my paycheck and mailed my last student loan payment. Afterwards, we went out to eat at Coco's.

There turned out not to be a UFO behind the Hale-Bopp comet afterall. Or maybe it's because I only had Lysol toilet bowl cleaner, not Phenobarbitol.

Maegan Stevens, Justin Peters, Jim Haendiges, Heather VanShaick

Justin Peters. By Justin Peters. There's always a picture like this in my rolls of film (and sometimes worse), if I leave my camera unattended for any legth of time.