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Beloved Chapel Hill Author, UNC Grad Sarah Dessen Takes a Look Back

After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill, Sarah Dessen worked mornings as Chapel Hill writer Lee Smith’s assistant and in the evenings pulled shifts as a waitress at the Flying Burrito. In between, she sat down to write every day, seven days a week. After about a year of rejections, Smith enjoyed one of Dessen’s books enough to send it to her agent. (Indy Week) One Year After Arrest in Hedgepeth Murder Case, What Do We Know?
On September 16, 2021, the Chapel Hill Police Department called a press conference to make a bombshell announcement in the ongoing Faith Hedgepeth murder case:.