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Know Your Neighbor: Caitlin
 Cook
, Student

Caitlin Cook, 20, of Sterling, is taking general education classes at Sauk Valley Community College. She is the daughter of Frank and Louise Cook of Freeport, and has two sisters, Jessica Cook, 28, of Sterling, and Melinda Cook, 26, of Chicago, and one niece.

Alma mater: I graduated in 2007 from Freeport High School.

Philosophy: Always plan for the future.

Oughta be a law: I’d like universal health care.

Hearts: Writing fiction, drawing, and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

Darts: Writing research papers.

Haunts: Movie theaters.

Hero: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony.

First job: I worked at the student center of the University of Wisconsin at Platteville when I was 17, making pizza and coffee.

First car: A Volkswagen Beetle when I was 17.

Read this: “My Booky Wook,” by Russell Brand.

People say I look like: My mom.

Phobia: Pickles.

Guilty pleasure: Knowing all the words to “Fergalicious” by Fergie.

I’d like to meet: Noel Fielding from “The Mighty Boosh,” a television show from the U.K.

In the dictionary next to: Bubbly.

Trading places: I’d like to be author J.K. Rowling. I’d like to be a successful novelist.

Trading spaces: I’d like to visit England. I love everything that comes out of there.

Shout out to: My grandma, Irma Roebuck.

Do you know someone who ought to be featured in Know Your Neighbors? Write to Phil Hartman at phartman@svnmail.com or call 800-798-4085, ext. 524.

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