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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Wow, Marcia! What a year! How exciting to hear about your novels. I’m so glad you’ll be able to spend some time getting them out there in the world for us to enjoy. (particularly adorable to me is Annie. I can’t just picture her now)<BR>
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You’ll be missed!<BR>
Shannon <BR>
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<B>From: </B>"Ribble, Marcia (ribbleml)" <ribbleml@ucmail.uc.edu><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:58:45 -0400<BR>
<B>To: </B>"Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu" <Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>RE: News <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Hi All,<BR>
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It feels so strange to be writing this to you all, mostly because the changes that are going to<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">occur in my life are so completely unexpected. I was sure I was going to go up for tenure<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">this coming fall and instead I'll be retiring at the end of December. I'll be moving to the<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">state of Georgia, to a suburb of Augusta home of the Masters Golf Tournament for which<BR>
the schools all have the week off. I have no intentions to hang up my hat and go gently into<BR>
that good night, but will switch gears a bit and allow myself to focus on the multiple novels<BR>
I've written in the last couple of years that deserve someone dedicated to publishing them<BR>
instead of trying to get tenured. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Claude and Marion is the story of a couple of lonely aging profs who find one another<BR>
despite their ineptitude for romance in their late fifties.<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Annie's Nine Moms started life as "June and Louise," the story of two sisters who decide to <BR>
put their combined wealth into buying and revamping a huge old Victorian home and inviting <BR>
other aging women to join them to make life easier for all of them. One of the women who <BR>
comes to live with them is Annie, a cute old lady with a penchant for collecting buttons and<BR>
Alheimer's that makes her think other people are stealing her buttons. </FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"> <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">And Death in the Auditorium is about a really awful prof in an English Dept who has her<BR>
throat slit in the chair room off the auditorium at graduation. She is everybody's worst<BR>
nightmare of a dissertation committee member, so I had a lot of fun with this one.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I'm hoping that all will work out so I can join you all next year in Louisville! <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Marcia<BR>
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