Rose wakes up the next morning to find that Rain has disappeared and wasn’t wearing a collar. On the night of the storm, Wesley lets Rain outside, and the dog doesn’t return. Hatford is in the path of an oncoming hurricane expected to turn inland, and Rose and Wesley hurriedly prepare for storm damage. Rose enjoys taking care of her pet and feeling an emotional connection with Rain. Rose and Rain are inseparable, with Rain providing a calming, stabilizing presence in Rose’s life. Wesley found the dog behind the bar without a collar and assumes that she’s a stray. Rose owns a dog, Rain, that Wesley brought home with him one day. Rose’s uncle Weldon lives in Hatford and is a kind, caring, involved part of Rose’s life. He is impatient and dismissive of Rose’s needs. Wesley works intermittently at a local garage and spends much of his free time in a neighborhood bar. Rose sometimes feels isolated from her peers because of her disability. Rose has been diagnosed with high-functioning autism, which makes learning in a conventional classroom environment difficult. Wesley has always told her that her mother left the two of them when Rose was young, and she doesn’t remember her mother at all. Eleven-year-old Rose Howard lives with her father, Wesley, in the small town of Hatford in upstate New York.
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