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Halloween

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Patrick Nafziger
Oct 30, 2023
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I remember one year in elementary school, I somehow lucked out and convinced my parents to buy me a costume. This was a rare occurrence, usually I would assemble something out of baseball hats and blue jeans, coming up with such inventive themes for my costume as “Farmer” or “Truck Driver”. But this year was different.

I can’t remember what the costume …

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