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Acknowledgments
My family has always been very important to me. For their love and support during the years, I first and foremost thank my parents, Maria Mariana Dascălu and Alecu Alexandru Dascălu, and my sister, Mariana Gabriela “Gabi” Dascălu.
I thank Cambria Press for discovering my work and contacting me with the offer to publish it. Special thanks go to Ms. Toni Tan, the director at Cambria Press, for her professionalism and very prompt help whenever needed.
I am grateful to my PhD dissertation chair, Dr. James G. Watson, Frances W. O’Hornett professor of literature, for his timely responses, faith in me, and very positive reception and promotion of my poetry and fiction and this book. I am especially appreciative of the feedback received from the anonymous outside readers for Cambria Press and from the many reviewers of the manuscript, writers, scholars, and university professors from all over the world who provided forewords and book cover comments: Prof. Dr. Rodica Albu; Farhad Mirwais Azizi; Prof. Dr. Odette Irenne Blumenfeld, head of the English Department; Prof. Dr. Codrin Liviu Cuţitaru, consul general of Romania at Vancouver, Canada;