title: Lara's First Christmas
author:  Alice O. Howell 
description: <b>Alice O. Howell</b> was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1922. From an early age, she lived abroad in hotels and boarding schools, never more than three months in one place. By eighteen, she had lived in or traveled to thirty-seven countries and undertaken a lifelong study of comparative religion and mythology. She graduated from the Buser Institut in Switzerland before returning with her parents to the U.S. During World War II, she studied under the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones as his youngest student. She got married, had four children, and taught English and history in private schools on Long Island for eighteen years, progressing to the university level. Howell continued to study Jungian depth psychology and astrology for thirty years. At the advice of the Jungian analyst Dr. Edward F. Edinger, she attempted to prove astrology a useful diagnostic aid in the practice of Jungian psychology and devoted her time to patients sent by psychiatrists and analysts. Howell taught at the Jung Foundation in New York City and later at the C.G. Jung institutes in Chicago and L.A. and became an international lecturer. She is the primary pioneer in linking psychology and astrology. Encouraged by her second husband, Walter Andersen, she has written seven books, including <i>Jungian Symbolism in Astrology</i> (1987); <i>The Dove in the Stone</i> (1988); and <i>The Web in the Sea</i> (1933); as well as three books for SteinerBooks and Lindisfarne Books: <i>How Like an Angel Came I Down</i> (1991); <i>The Beejum Book</i> (2002); <i>Lara's First Christmas</i> (2004); and <i>From the Archives of the Heart</i> (2010). Now widowed and a great-grandmother, Alice O. Howell lives in the Massachusetts Berkshires and continues her practice and moderates an online Jungian group.
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  Stuck With You
  
  
  A Christmas Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  Lara Swann
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 Lara Swann
  
  
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  Cover Image: Photo Credit Oleh Phoenix, Shutterstock.com
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, dialogue and
  everything else are products of the author’s imagination. Any similarity to
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  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0004_split_000.html#Chapter_One_Lauren)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0004_split_001.html#Chapter_Two_Lauren)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](part0004_split_002.html#Chapter_Three_Tristan)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](part0004_split_003.html#Chapter_Four_Lauren)
  
  
  [Chapter Fi