---Do not let the beginning of this book fool you.
---...Ah, but then again, is it not true?...'life' fools us each and every day; and it matters not whether one chooses to believe in, or not to believe in the words I have just relayed, for that's the way life just happens to be. So why not, to prove the point as to what I say--for truth's sake
---...simply stop what you do, stand back...and observe...

---Deception, trickery, suble evasions of the truth--Nature manifests an uncanny ability to carry out its objectives in such unobtrusive ways.
---Day in and day out we scamper around like busy little ants--this is important, that is important, everything in our lives is of utmost importance, or so we say.
---...But let us stop what we do, let us stand back...and let us observe...

---Matrimonial disharmony, family upheaval, separation...it seems, for all apparent purposes, almost everyone has a word or two to say as to the answers to such devastation, divorce running "hog-wild" the way it is throughout our lands these days, and all this none the matter there be any logical basis behind what "those with the answers" might happen to say.
---...But...no matter; simply stop what you do, stand back...be honest to yourself...and observe.

---I guess, though, such statement as I might be inclined to make that 'life' fools us each and every day...it might have come to be easy for me to say, for I have been favored the privileged experience of viewing life as a medical doctor, as a gynecologist in particular...a compassionate (I feel proud to say) and understanding observer of people
---...of their foils, of their weaknesses, of their loves, of their strengths.
---Marriage, separation, divorce...ah, but the answer has come to be ever so apparent. So why do so many people fool themselves the way they do? But then again, Mother Nature has seen to that; after all, deception, trickery, subtle evasions of the truth...they are all among Mother Nature's ways.

---And so...do not allow the first part of this novel to fool you such as does life day after day.
---...Sexuality can carry your mind away
---...as it can make your thoughts stray.
---...But Mother Nature would have it no other way
---...for Mother Nature is no fool. After all, it is Mother Nature who, in the first place, and in the long run finalizes and sets the immutable rules by which we live...by which we die.
---So don't fall under the domain of and dance to the beat of Mother Nature's tunes.
---...Simply stop what you do... stand back, and as you come to turn each and every page of this compilation I wrote about life's ectasies, and loves, and jealousies, and joys, and painful truths, and hates...look beneath the surface, be honest to yourself, and then observe...not the nakedness of flesh seen within some of the words, but rather, observe the naked truths of 'life' written in-between, around, behind, and embedded within the canter of every word... in every page.

---So I have written a story, a make-believe, a fictitious story about make-believe people, about a make-believe middle-aged husband and his make-believe middle-aged wife, about their make-belief adolescent daughter and their make-believe ten year old little boy, all of them living together in a make-believe town with make-believe, attractive--"mouth-watering" and very alluring--younger nextdoor neighbors to one side of their make-believe home, not to mention their other nextdoor neighbors to the other side of their home, older neighbors... aged sometimes with the wisdom, but always with the painful and ecstatic realities of life.
---Yes, I have written a story about some make-believe families of varied age groups, about their different prespectives, their differences in thought...spanning two generation gaps...and three generations
---...all of them...make-believe people, to be sure, but yet, all of them...people with very real feelings and very real emotions,
---...all of them with very real problems attendant to marriage, to separation, to divorce...to the insidious and devastating inflictions of disease and age...which always level the playing field and humble even the boldest of men...and women
---...all of them...make-believe families who experience the very real loves, the very real joys, the very real pains, and the aches, and the miseries, and the very real and stormy trails of life.
---I have written of lust...and of envy and of desire...of misunderstanding, and of the incessant, the all powerful, the all pervasive drives of life, drives so powerful that they can place a man within the arms of another woman...and a woman, a man...and tear at the happiness of a family, and destroy the children--the innocent victims of it all!...
---...I have written of drives...of powerful 'drives' that can wreck havoc upon families...and rip them apart.

---Everybody, every family is different you say?
---True. There is logic to such words. Nevertheless, we are what we are, and there is no getting away from that. Universal truths ofttimes run through all people, through all families, no matter the outward differences...no matter the location, no matter their backgrounds, no matter the times...
---...universal truths painful enough though to separate minds...to separate bodies...to sear through hearts, and tear love apart.

---Whatever. Read this novel and enjoy. For, foremost, your enjoyment is what my writing is all about. But I dare not profess my benevolence in this regard too much, for I must admit, your joy in reading my novel, the value, the benefit you derive from it, and the insight and help you might also come to gain from it will all, in turn, be my very own feeling of joy.
---Yes, your pleasure in it will come to be my joy in it...an extended form of happiness that I will come to derive from it--a subtle but very certain degree of selfishness on my part from my exhilaration and feeling of elation inside...at your feeling of pleasure, of satisfaction, of learning from it, and thereby from your deriving insight from it which can only but help to better your own life, and that of your family...a more common understanding between husband and wife, between parents and children...and friends...a better understanding and caring for mankind.
---...Your pleasure will be my happiness...the one form of selfishness that Nature made provision for...that Nature would wish we would all feel inside...our most cherished reward so that Nature's species, mankind...might ultimately survive.