When young adult novelist Sandy Asher was a young girl living in Philadelphia, a band of Gypsies would make occasional stops in her neighborhood. Asher and the other children in her class would know that these mysterious travellers were once again in their town when a young boy they called "John the Gypsy" would once more come to James G. Blaine Elementary school. "He informed us that John was his school name," Asher wrote in her Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS) entry, "but that his Gypsy name was Four Roses and he knew what the wind that blew around the reservoir was saying. It said 'Go where you must go, and be what you must be,' he told us, in hushed tones that sent shivers along our spines. I've always wanted to put that scene into a book, but it's never quite fit. Maybe someday...