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To an extent, this novel deals with the legal aspects of child custody in the State of Maine. I asked
for help in understanding this subject from my friend Warren Silver, who is a fine attorney. Warren
guided me carefully, and along the way he also told me about a quaint old device called the
Stenomask, which I immediately appropriated for my own fell purposes. If I've made procedural
mistakes in the story which follows, blame me, not my legal resource. Warren also asked me--
rather plaintively — if I could maybe put a 'good' lawyer in my book. All I can say is that I did my
best in that regard.
Thanks to my son Owen for technical support in Woodstock, New York, and to my friend (and
fellow Rock Bottom Remainder) Ridley Pearson for technical support in Ketchum, Idaho. Thanks
to Pam Dorman for her sympathetic and perceptive reading of the first draft. Thanks to Chuck
Verrill for a monumental editing job--your personal best, Chuck. Thanks to Susan Moldow, Nan
Graham, Jack Roman s, and Carolyn Reidy at Scribner for care and feeding. And thanks to Tabby,
who was there for me again when things got hard. I love you, hon.
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