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What does it take to be an award-winning University Interscholastic League ready writer? Could I have done it? Who knows? I got assigned to debate. Woe was me.

It was a small school. We had one team. My partner was good; I wasn’t.

Resolved: “There should be an international organization for the control of nuclear weapons.” That’s what we had to argue for our against.

With zero experience, we somehow …