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Y K O O SP Scott Carpenter
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t’s that time of year again. You know, right after summer, the HALLOWEN countdown begins.
Funny how this holiday brings out the freaky stuff and everyone considers it normal. Blood, vampires,
candy, werewolves, ghosts, candy, skeletons, zombies and of course… candy. Isn’t that what Halloween is all about? Eating and sorting all the kids’ candy when they get back home after roaming the neighbors’ front doorsteps with their baskets, and accidentally hoarding your favorites from the bowl by your door—the ones you are supposed to hand out to the little superheroes and Disney characters. Confess it, you know I’m right – you’ve been caught more than once, haven’t you? Being honest though, I think most people enjoy the preHalloween build-up. You can decorate your house with all the things boxed up in the garage that collect dust during the rest of the year. It’s not like you would put up a graveyard out front for the kid’s birthday party. Well, you could do it I suppose, but anytime other than October and it would be just plain weird. It’s always a fun time prepping for a night of ghoulish thrills. Just seeing all the munchkins running around, sugared up and crazy, and knowing you’ll get to add to it before they leave. In essence, you are like grandma and grandpa feeding the kids sweets all day, knowing they will be bouncing off the walls for a few hours that night, as you sleep soundly and ignore the curses of their parents. Other benefits of this particular holiday? You are now perfectly free to read all the shape-shifting, vampire, scary
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