they include the beautiful and talented sara goldenthal ; my friend of 25 years brian dunleavy ( once again and as always ) ; the lithe and graceful eleda wacker ( yes , i named a character after her you would , too ) ; the wonderful poet nick piombino , mark locke ( id be remiss if i didnt mention here that mark locke is a great guy ) ; and the lovely and lifesaving elizabeth benien ( who does not send text messages during surgery ) .