
May 26, 2010
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Study in sacrifice
Jessica Bilz didn't set out to be valedictorian.It was a surprise when she looked at her transcript after freshman year and saw the No. 1 ranking for her class at South Gwinnett. But it planted the seed Bilz nurtured for another two years."My mom and I kind of sat down and said, 'Let's see if we can keep this up,'" Bilz said. "It wasn't like a, 'You have to be valedictorian' thing.'"

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