In this book, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo tells it all. From her time growing up watching her Father, the late President Diosdado Macapagal to her early years in public service and ultimately to her terms in the highest post of the land – the only Filipino public servant to have ever done so. And for Gloria Macapagfal-Arroyo, it’s dues ex machina. On January 20, 2001, the fate of the Philippines changed. Certainly, the destiny of one woman did. At the time, little did Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, daughter of the late President Diosdado Macapagal, know that she would become the first-ever Filipina to become the Philippines’ chief executive for two terms – well, nearly two terms, as the circumstances behind her first term were not your usual. In this book, this autobiography, the former resident calls this moment in her life as a product of dues ex machine. It is one of two other moments in the book that she describes following this literary device.