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Marcia J. Sargent

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in Santa Ana, California, The United States

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Marcia spent the first five years of her life in a small grove house in Claremont, California. Today, there is an onramp to the westbound 210 where that house used to stand. She still misses climbing orange trees and smelling the sun-warmed dusty tang of the bark.

For almost twenty years she issued imperatives in her elementary school classrooms and worked as a social studies and language arts mentor for Saddleback Unified School District. A University of California-Irvine Writing Fellow, she wrote the Interact (Social Studies School Service) simulations CHINA and EGYPT, a memoir WING WIFE: HOW TO BE MARRIED TO A MARINE FIGHTER PILOT and two young adult fantasy/adventure books called NIGHT MONSTERS and DAY MONSTERS.

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	Wing Wife: How to Be Married to a Marine Fighter Pilot 4.10 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Monsters 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Day Monsters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EGYPT: A Simulation of Ancient Egyptian Civilization it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China: A simulation of ancient Chung Kuo, the world's most ancient civilization it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You know how everything seems so normal when you’re growing up,” she asked plaintively, “and then comes this moment when you realize your whole family is nuts?”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“Do you really think you’re the only human being alive who is unforgivably flawed? Who’s been hurt almost to the point of breaking?”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh, The Language of Flowers

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“If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.”
― Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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“Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Awakens

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“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time.”
― Garth Stein, A Sudden Light

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message 2: by Marcia

Feb 10, 2012 11:33PM

Justzohreh wrote: "Hey, Marcia! At last I am connected with someone I actually know! I'm enjoying The City of Thieves right now! You know me as Zoe."

Finally I get around to fixing my author page:) Only three years after you wrote this note!

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message 1: by Zohreh

Apr 30, 2009 01:56PM

Hey, Marcia! At last I am connected with someone I actually know! I'm enjoying The City of Thieves right now! You know me as Zoe.

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