01636cam a2200277Ii 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003402000190007504000080009410000270010224500340012925000290016326000410019230000240023333600270025733700290028433800280031350000820034150000270042352007960045065000310124665000300127765000220130765500290132946860774MeVbMML20241114125142.0010502r20012000nyu           000 1 eng d  a0345442938      cAJM1 aWood, Monica,eauthor.10aMy only story /cMonica Wood.  a1st Ballantine Books ed.  aNew York :bBallantine Books,c2001.  a293 pages ;c21 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent.  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia.  avolumebnc2rdacarrier.  aReprint. Originally published: San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle Books, 2000.  aIncludes reader guide.  aRita Rosario cuts hair, tells fortunes, and reads the classics. One night she has a dream, which she interprets as a summons, and before long she has flung herself into the life of John Reed, a lonely stranger who needs her help." "As they fall in love, John tells Rita his "only story," the story each of us tells that defines us the most. She realizes that she must help him reconnect with his eight-year-old niece, Aileen, orphaned in a terrible tragedy and kept from him since. Rita discovers a secret that opens the door to contact with the girl, but the entanglements of family and desire bring unexpected results. My Only Story explores the inescapable pull of family, the surprises of love, and the notion that happiness often resides in the places where we are least likely to look. 0aBeauty operatorsvFiction. 0aFortune-tellersvFiction. 0aOrphansvFiction. 7aRomance fiction.2lcgft.