My Only Story

He came to me first in a dream as a crippled dog angling down a country lane puzzled by his sudden age his bum paw the dry stick clamped between his teeth. I’d been expecting this dream for a very long time and I woke up moving. . . .Rita Rosario has a gift a way with people. She listens to them and really sees them for who they are–warts and all. And sometimes she even knows how to guide them toward a new beginning. Women even men come to Rita’s beauty shop for perms town gossip and the makeovers of their very lives. . John Reed first appears to Rita in one of her dreams. When they meet at a town gathering a few days later she immediately offers him a haircut and her heart. As they share their stories Rita senses she can help John fill a void by reconnecting him to his only family–a young niece he nearly lost in a heartbreaking tragedy. While inspiring John on a journey out of loneliness and into reconciliation Rita begins to come to terms with events in her past . . . and discovers things about herself she never realized including her own intimate role in John’s unfolding story..