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215-885-7701 Rivian Marcus knows it’s never too late to publish your first
book. After all, she published hers at 91.

“I woke up in the middle of the night, went to my desk and
sat and wrote it in one sitting,” she said of “Life Is A Four-Letter
Word: It Takes The Alphabet To Live It,” which she published on
Amazon in March.

For every letter of the alphabet, Marcus writes words of
wisdom to live by. A stands for “Accept reality,” B for “Be wary of
easy fixes” and C for “Cancel negative thoughts.” Her daughter-
in-law, Tara Marcus, illustrated and designed the book.

“Negative thoughts bring negative situations into your life.

We are like magnets, attracting what we give off,” Marcus said.

Marcus is an avid reader — she goes through a book a day
on her e-reader app — but this is her first venture into writing.

Her self-help book is based on topics she spoke about frequently
during her years as a para-chaplain.

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The former interior decorator became a para-chaplain after
surviving cancer in her early 80s. Her mother and sister both
succumbed to the disease at younger ages, and her recovery
seemed like nothing short of a miracle.

She took a three-year course and said she and her cohort were
taught to be helpful to people in need. It harkened back to what
she was taught by her mother at an early age.

Marcus grew up in South Philadelphia during the height
of the Great Depression, and can vividly recall the sight of
people coming into her parents’ bakery with food stamps from
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

16 DECEMBER 17, 2020
THE GOOD LIFE
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