title: The One - Stories of Falling in Love Forever
author: Hodge, Elizabeth M.
description: If lucky enough, we fall in love once in a lifetime.
   Children's books and romance novels promise us an encounter with a beautiful, mythical love - a passionate lover that sweeps us off kilter and changes everyday life into happily-ever-after. In reality, most fall in love a couple of times throughout a lifetime. Yet, those relationships fail to ful ll the "forever" expectancy - they end. Still, we hope that love, true and eternal will embrace us. We hope that stardust will cover the banal when life becomes monotonous or loneliness grasps us too rmly when days fades to night.
   Reading about love triumphant sparks desire for more than uninspired routine existence.
   In The One, an assortment of writers chronicle the discovery of the one woman to share the rest of life's journey.
   Everyone deserves happily ever after "