I let my daughter hate me for nine years, and I never once tried to change her mind. I had proof, I had witnesses, my lawyer said I had one of the strongest cases he’d ever seen. But then my ex-wife looked at me and said nine words: “Fight me and Norah pays for it the rest of her life.” She was seven and already being told I abandoned her, that I didn’t love her. None of it was true. I had been fighting for custody for almost a year, but I knew she wasn’t bluffing. If I kept going, my daughter w