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Marley's Ghost
     
Marley's Ghost
the spirit of Jacob Marley, who is the dead business partner of Scrooge in the book A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. He appears to Scrooge on Christmas Eve, and tells him that he will be visited by three spirits.
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