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When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

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Susan Orlean
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Holiday
Stoops
Indian
Pumpkin
Fronts
Vegetable
Front
Strictly
Inflatable
Kids
Halloween
Latex
Nothing
Corn
Pumpkins
Vegetables
Membranes
Electric
Stoop

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