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Tom Cruise and a desperate Chinese girl's confession

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Furong Jiejie: take this!

PRweb.com is a press release distribution and publishing service — the idea behind it is to make it easy for any company or individual to have their press releases seen by the media. Most of the press releases on it consist of dry corporate speak without much interest for the general reader. But there are some kooky individuals who use the service, such as Niki Yan, the "desperate" Chinese girl pictured here, who is looking for a publisher for her book about her infatuation with Tom Cruise:
"It's Tom Cruise that inspired me to come to the U.S. from a small village of China to pursue my own American dream," says Niki Yan, the young Chinese writer/actress who just finished a book "My Love for you, Tom Cruise -- a Desperate Chinese girl's Confession."...

..."Tom Cruise to me is like Scientology to him -- Tom said how Scientology changed his life, and I want to tell him how much he changed my life. It's to do with determination, it's to do with faith and love."

Niki now is 20 years old, the author of 6 books, and this book is her first book in English. She also finished a screenplay, which also was inspired by Mr. Cruise. Niki expects Tom Cruise to star in it...

Is she disturbed, or is she is a hoax?

There is more blathering from Niki at the websites listed below, whose domain names are regsitered to Jason Das of Brooklyn, and Malfer Multi Media of Santa Monica, California.

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