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C.P. Odom

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By training, I’m a retired engineer, born in Texas, raised in Oklahoma, and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. Sandwiched in there was a stint in the Marines, and I’ve lived in Arizona since 1977, working first for Motorola and then General Dynamics. I raised two sons with my first wife, Margaret, before her untimely death from cancer, and my second wife, Jeanine, and I adopted two girls from China. The older of my daughters recently graduated with an engineering degree and is working in Phoenix, and the younger girl is heading toward a nursing degree. I’ve always been a voracious reader and collector of books, and my favorite genres are science fiction, historical fiction, histories, and, in recent years, reading (and later writing ...more

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A Most Civil Proposal

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A Covenant of Marriage

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“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian author”
C.P. Odom, Pride, Prejudice & Secrets

“now I wonder whether I am not doing exactly as Colonel Fitzwilliam said: interfering in Jane’s life much as Mr. Darcy did when he convinced his friend to stay in town and not return. Am I making everything worse?”
C.P. Odom, Determination

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures — Samuel Johnson”
C.P. Odom, Determination

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