A divorced father named Bill Smith with four young daughters agonizes over his situation -- which he considers maddeningly unfair. He feels victimized by his ex-wife Ann and "a courthouse gang" of judges and social workers. He refers to the judges "as clowns in black robes." What he wants is something impossible -- to be left alone to raise his girls. Above all, Smith is bedeviled by an intense belief that the main obstacle to a happy and productive future for the girls he adores is their mother, as well as her lifestyle and close friends. On a rainy and chilly night in March while sitting alone at the kitchen table in his home up a canyon in the tree fruit country of central Washington, Smith resolves his problem. He decides, reluctantly, on a solution and a course of action -- not forced by anger, jealousy, betrayal or madness, he says, but by love.
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