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Consider yourself lucky
By Alisa Gubatayao
November 04, 2005
Friday
All hail to Mr. Incredible
and the rest of his gang on Halloween. Before I graduated from
high school and moved away, I lived on Monroe Street for 13 years.
As Monroe Street is one street over from Jackson, and Jackson
is always blocked off, we naturally received the overflow of
hundreds of trick-or-treaters. Although we always ran out of
candy before the night was over and had to tolerate the doorbell
ringing endlessly until bedtime (even though all lights were
out in the house), never once did it occur to my family that
it was a public nuisance. On the contrary, my family and I considered
ourselves lucky for living in such a child-friendly area. My
brothers and I were even allowed to go out on our own on Halloween
night. Imagine that.
As a current Texas resident
(only the 2nd largest state in the union!), we did not receive
one trick-or-treater where we live. So consider yourself lucky
to have the pleasure of viewing ghosts and goblins and Mr. Incredibles
galore.
Alisa Gubatayao
Plano, TX - USA
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