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Great book.

I like Elizabeth Berg! This is my second favorite of her books (first is All Are Welcome Here) Well written, good story line, and she's not afraid to tackle tough situations. Had to read this straight through, into the wee hours of morning.

A torn front cover (taped) and some underlining...all by previous owner!
A very good book! You love the characters! It's a beautiful portrait of one woman's resilence in the face of loneliness, and of a union that transcends life's most unexpeced and challenging circumstances.

Oprah author Berg (her Open House was a 2000 Book Club selection) turns in another sweet, unprepossessing and reassuringly predictable novel whose characters experience loneliness, loss and healing. "Odd-shaped," and with an "unfortunate" face, Myra Lipinski has been lonely all her life; she trained as a nurse "because I knew it would be a way for people to love me." Now 51, she lives alone with her dog and works as a visiting nurse in Boston, caring for an array of eccentrics that includes the feuding Schwartz couple, the feisty DeWitt Washington and the anxious teenage mother Grace. Resigned to spinsterhood, Myra is secretly thrilled when her agency assigns her to care for a former crush, Chip Reardon, who has returned to his parents' home with end-stage brain cancer. In high school, Chip was a golden boy, athletic and clever, out of ugly duckling Myra's league. Now, though, he and Myra strike up a friendship based on their mutual loneliness and on Chip's resistance to his parents, who want him to pursue aggressive treatment for his cancer. Chip prefers to die peacefully, a decision that only Myra seems to understand. Chip and Myra become inseparable: he tags along on her patient visits and eventually moves into her house, where their budding friendship takes a romantic turn. On the brink of death, Chip helps Myra to realize that her isolation is as much self-induced as fated; throughout their lives, both he and Myra have shied away from human closeness. In an inspiring, well-deserved denouement, Chip's inevitable death forces Myra to embrace the world in all its bittersweet complexity. Berg's fans will be grateful for the same gift: a novel that serves as a gentle, if unambitious, reminder to "only connect."

Self-anointed spinster at 51 Myra a visiting nurse considers herself reasonably cobntent, until Chip Reardon, the too good to be true golden boy she has adored from afar, is assigned to be her new patient.

This book will leaving you feeling every motion possible! It is a true fairy tale!