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I think it could have gone well with the rest of your book! <br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature" style=""><a style="font-size:12px" href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=9d3a686e-218d-4849-8298-b480188dc8ac&af_android_url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail%26listing%3Demail_signature">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(132, 115, 255); padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Saturday, July 19, 2025, 1:32 PM, David Marshall via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail" style=""><div id="yiv2063341010"><div dir="ltr">
<p><span>Dear former OE/EI/ICA Colleagues - I recently published my memoir, IRON BOY, covering the twelve
years from 1962 until I turned eighteen in 1974 when I lived in a family
religious order. The initial manuscript was an unwieldy 420 pages,
so my literary agent and editor helped me whittle it down to 270 pages.
Most of the pages of IRON BOY cover those harrowing first few years in
Chicago, before I was sent forth into the world at twelve. Now that the
book is published, and readers are asking for more about my “Youth
Deployment” years, I decided to share some of these forgotten,
cutting-room-floor chapters with you on Substack for free. Here are some
scenes from one of the most intense, mind-blowing thirty days of my
life in the summer of 1972. Had it been included in IRON BOY, it would
have appeared between the chapters </span><em>The Academy</em><span> and </span><em>Seventeen</em><span>. For me, this summer marked the true birth of the ICA.-David Marshall</span></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallbooks/p/other-world-rapture?r=23ftwm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false">https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallbooks/p/other-world-rapture?r=23ftwm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false</a></p><img src="cid:zGZ4EmJI8HmFuSurCvzU" yahoo_partid="1.2" alt="OtherWorldSymbols.jpg" width="448" height="118"><br><br><p><br></p>
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