Margaret Liu

Ever since I learnt the existence of words, I had always enjoyed the art of them and often obsessed over the beauty of literature. Between the ten years of eight to eighteen, I started to express my own emotions and thoughts through the form of poetry whilst writing more infrequently in my diaries. In my personal opinion, poetry is one of the finest forms for expressing one's philosophy and creating a unique universe for your imagination to freestyle in. Now since thoughts are not limited by words as words are only the carrier of thoughts, so as soon as my thoughts leave my head, they could be interpreted in your own way. Poetry became a much larger part of my life ever since the pandemic of Covid-19 begun, I wrote more poems in the past year than all of the poems from other years combined. Whilst being fully aware of how the pandemic had disrupted many people's lives including my own, one beauty of it is that it paid me back with plenty of ideas that I most possibly would not have got if things were to be otherwise. This poetry collection includes most of my works in English from the past ten years, I have made my best attempt to hunt down all the locations I could have possibly situated my words. Though, needless to say, I am undoubtedly aware that there are still some works I didn't manage to retrieve and that they are swimming around in my pile of notebooks and files to this very day.

The author met General Tealeaf Howard Patrick on Skype on May 4th, 2011, two days after Osama bin Laden was killed by the SEAL in Pakistan. General Tealeaf Patrick was the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan back then, and nominated as the next Director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) by the US president Omama. Tealeaf proposed to the author in order to fulfill the requirements for the attendance of the US Senate confirmation hearings with his wife to be. However, this mission impossible is even more difficult and tougher than anyone could have ever imagined. The first part, "Confession of the Twenty-First Century Female Scientist" all-inclusively confesses the author's past extraordinary life experiences. The second part is focused on the true love story between the author and Tealeaf Howard Patrick encountering on the internet, the virtual world. South China Sea controversy, military maneuvers, Diao-Yu-Tai/Senkaku Islands controversy, exhibitions of advanced weapons and arms in the news, intelligence wars and cyber wars, etc. all occurred during this time. When a man from a secret world encounters a woman from another world without any secrets, what kind of sparkling love will be kindled?

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