Death Poem - Part 1

I am a retired school superintendent who enjoys writing. In that role, I penned a weekly column entitled, "Superintendent's Chat" for distribution to all students, staff, and parents. My novel, Death Poem, and script came to be in in the fall of 1982. My former mother-in-law said to me, "Dick, you know so much about history, and you are so creative, you should write a book. That Christmas week, she was killed by a drunken driver. The following summer, I was driving to Maine with my wife for vacation when I thought of my mother-in-law's words, and in a flash, the characters and plot for my book came to me.

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I am a retired school superintendent who enjoys writing. In that role, I penned a weekly column entitled, "Superintendent's Chat" for distribution to all students, staff, and parents. My novel, Death Poem, and script came to be in in the fall of 1982. My former mother-in-law said to me, "Dick, you know so much about history, and you are so creative, you should write a book. That Christmas week, she was killed by a drunken driver. The following summer, I was driving to Maine with my wife for vacation when I thought of my mother-in-law's words, and in a flash, the characters and plot for my book came to me. When I got home, I typed out a draft. but could not market the book because as a superintendent, I had to be squeaky clean.

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