Delightful, endearing, and a bit heartbreaking.  Grumbly, persnickety Eudora finds herself increasingly more disenchanted with life and people just as tenacious, ten year old Rose moves in next door.  Eudora had successfully kept her feelings packed away until Rose and fellow senior, Stanley, force her to open up to life and love.  This book reminds that life is to be lived to the fullest.  Dear Dora will stay with me for a long time.