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BoxersAndWritersMagazine.com Buy my Book It's About Time (Millions of Copies Sold for Dad) Mark Connor is aBoxing Trainer and a Writer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Hisfirst book, It’s About Time (Millions of Copies Sold for Dad), is a sagawrapped around a package of poems, guarded by angels. Through an autobiographyreading like a novel, he weaves together a story of love, family, and life withtwenty poems running through it, sharing his growth in the Catholic faith, theinfluence of Irish heritage in his hometown’s American identity, his explorationof Lakota tradition within the urban American Indian community, and hisunderstanding of how truth found in different spiritual approaches can leadothers—as it led himself back—to its fullness in the revelation of Christ. Mark Connor grew up in Saint Paul, callinghimself the product of a “mixed marriage,” because his father—a combat woundedVietnam veteran—grew up across the street from St. Columba parish in the Midwaydistrict, while his mother—a school teacher