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Craziness happening during the rehearsal dinner prior to Adam's mother's wedding.

"I've seen their ghosts, sweetie--you're seeing ghosts. This kind of ghost can't hurt you," my mom assured me. Adam has been having strange dreams.

Elliot Barlow is introduced; he's small for a thirteen year old, but he's a grown man who's about to marry Adam's mother, Rae. Adam is the main character.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS becomes Adam's "emergency" novel.

Cousins were determined not to love skiing, in a ski-loving family.

This is about skiing in Aspen, Colorado. Adam Brewster is told he looks like Alan Ladd, but he thinks he resembles Toni Matt, a champion skier his mother knew very well. She tells him that if Toni was his father he'd love to ski.