How I Grew Up is Book One in 'The Carousel Trilogy,' stories of three friends whose lives were changed by one event when they were high school students. 'You'll Never Walk Alone.' The words from that song in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel held an especially poignant meaning for Melanie Stewart, who went on stage in the leading role of Julie Jordan mere weeks after her parents were victims of a senseless murder, perpetrated by her own sister's troubled husband. She was just eighteen, a high s