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Deacon "Deke" Solomon did 4 years in the Marines and had a checkered, 10-year career through the blue-collar world before going to college at the age of 35. He came out of school seven years later with a Master's degree and a seemingly unquenchable thirst for more reading. Today he is consumed with his home library, his computers, his tomato garden and his cats. He reads a lot and writes when the mood strikes him.