Amy was separated from her parents as a result of war which was ordered by Pundit Nehru to liberate Goa by Indian Armed Forces. She was just four years then. Father Briganza with the help of Indian army accepted the responsibility of raising and upbringing of the child. Time and Tide wait for nobody. Amy started growing in the convent with sisters and nuns. Amy’s transformation was both delightful and stunning and at 16 years Amy was blossoming into an absolute object. She was now turning an envy to her age group girls and boys for sexual frustration and voyeuristic lust. She fell in love with Steven the best looking man in college which was not liked by Ravi Kamath son of a powerful politician. He ensured that Steven family is asked to leave India. After Steven left Amy started remembering her own parents and Father Briganza made all arrangements to send her world over to trace Costa Rica her father but couldn’t find him. Disheartened she became a fighter pilot and she started loving Rajiv Singh. Destiny failed her there also and Rajiv Singh died in a plane crash. Meanwhile Steven got married in US which wasn’t a happy marriage. Steven came back to India and met Amy but Amy sent him back. Steven took ill seriously and wanted to meet Amy for the last time. Amy met him and his wife with a cute daughter. Amy explained to both of them to have good relationship and forget Amy. They both agreed and Amy came back to Goa. She passed rest of her life as a bun serving the poor and needy.

From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. Written with humor, sympathy, and tenderness, this intricately woven novel proves him to be the master of an altogether different art form. LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH leaps cities and decades as Rakoff sings the song of an America whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. The characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A daughter of Irish slaughterhouse workers in early-twentieth-century Chicago faces a desperate choice; a hobo offers an unexpected refuge on the rails during the Great Depression; a vivacious aunt provides her clever nephew a path out of the crushed dream of postwar Southern California; an office girl endures the casually vicious sexism of 1950s Manhattan; the young man from Southern California revels in the electrifying sexual and artistic openness of 1960s San Francisco, then later tends to dying friends and lovers as the AIDS pandemic devastates the community he cherishes; a love triangle reveals the empty materialism of the Reagan years; a marriage crumbles under the distinction between self-actualization and humanity; as the new century opens, a man who has lost his way finds a measure of peace in a photograph he discovers in an old box—an image of pure and simple joy that unites the themes of this brilliantly conceived work. Rakoff's insistence on beauty and the necessity of kindness in a selfish world raises the novel far above mere satire. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word that perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.

When I was 8 yrs old I started writing poetry about my life experiences, growing up poetry has been my stress reliever and great therapy. Since I'm a thinker 45% of my poetry are about my thoughts or things I would always imagine in my mind. Most of the things I write about a lot of people can relate to young or old. There are poems I have that will break your heart, make you cry, and make you smile. I think my poetry can put a voice not only to me but people that has been through so much and have felt like they would never feel important or loved.

Ever since my retirement from the Edmonton Police Service, January 8, 2014, I would often pray and inquire of my Precious Saviour Jesus Christ, what is His will and His purpose for my life. Often times after praying, my mind would be filled with words that I would quickly write down and to my surprise it would be in the form of poetry. Prior to this I had never written or delved into poetry. This book is a small portion of what I have written since the beginning of 2014. I can truly say that everyone wants to love and be loved. Some of the poetry that is captured in this book is from my own experience and what I have observed in my family and friends. We each have our battles in life and the love that stands the test of time emerges from the Battlefield of Love.

Thespis -- Trial by jury -- The sorcerer -- H.M.S. Pinafore -- The pirates of penzance -- Patience -- Iolanthe -- Princess Ida -- The mikado -- Ruddigore -- The yeomen of the guard -- The gondoliers -- Utopia limited -- The grand duke