Acknowledgments

When I finished my last book, back in 2002, I swore I’d never write another one. They say that pregnancy is the same way. Ask a woman right after delivering a child whether she’d do it again and, if she’s coherent, she’ll give you an emphatic, “Never!” Yet within months, if not days, she forgets the pain of birth and only remembers the pleasure of spending time with her baby, then her infant, then her toddler, then her kid. (By the time the child is a teenager, some of the pain of birth may have returned to her memory, though.)

So it took me seven years to forget the pain of giving birth to my last book. Actually, I remembered that pain (though the memory had softened over the years) but really felt I had something worthwhile ...

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