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When meeting the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, Carol sees everyone’s tragic future: Philippe falls back into alcoholism, her aunt Valerie’s and uncle Mike’s marriage has become a miserable one, and Christopher is a married man with a kid on the way, working at a boring office job—given up on his passion for art. At the dance, Carol learns that Ryan is a womanizer who treats girls like cheap toys.

Carol learns some new things about the people in her life: her aunt and uncle turn down their plans of adopting a three week old baby girl from Beijing in favor of taking her in. Christopher asks Roberta to the dance, and Phillippe is dire financial difficulties.

I got to the part of the book, where Carol meets the Ghost of Christmas Past and sees her memories of Christmas from her childhood. I can’t believe that her parents were originally going to name her Eve before they changed their mind and decided to name her Carol instead. When I read how her sister got pneumonia and her parents dying en route to visit her on her birthday—that I actually cried!