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Article: How sweet it is
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- October 28, 2009
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My happiest Halloween was the year I dressed as a die, wearing a
box painted white with black dots on each side.
My best friend, Samantha, wore a sandwich board painted like a
domino. We were quite the pair.
The worst Halloween was the year I went as a devil and lost my
pitchfork. We even retraced our steps through our Colorado
neighborhood.
No dice. No pitchfork.
What remained constant through the years was the promise of good
junk food on All Hallows' Eve. It usually started with a supper
like hot dogs and tater tots, because Mom was in a rush to get our
faces painted and our butts out the door before dark.
Then the pilgrimage for sugar began.
These days, when I open my ...