Amazon supports pre-ordering soon-to-be-published books. The actual purchase and delivery happens when the book is finally released. I discovered this when Carol's email got a notice from Amazon that she'd just purchased the new book in a series I know she followed.

Everyone who knows Carol is not surprised that she's still buying books long after she died.

I logged into her Amazon account to see if there were more surprises waiting for me and found a "For Clif" list.

This hit me harder than you might think.

The last present my dad bought for me came almost a year after he died. He'd ordered a comedy album for me that for some reason or other wasn't ready on schedule. I remember that this threw me into a bit of a spin: A Gift From The Dead.

I was scared to open Carol's "For Clif." Was I scheduled to get a Christmas present from the Ghost of Christmas's Past?

It turned out that the list was quite old, and most of the items on the list had been Christmas presents years ago.