A novel about a widower with three children in the future. He is given free tickets to the 49er game but the kicker is he asks a girl if she is a robot he gets to take her home. He wins and takes her home to his kids and falls in love with her They are in a car accident similar to the one which killed his wife. Then after a journalist tells his story the rush of funding from the community and also the widow of the man who killed his wife enables him to buy a replacement with her restored memory