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Ghosts Of Halloweens Past

10/31/2018

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Ghosts Of Halloweens Past

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   I know Halloween has its lovers and its haters, though probably more lovers than haters.
    I happen to be among the Halloween lovers.
  I've always loved Halloween, even past the time when I was still considered young enough to put on a costume and go house-to-house collecting candy bars, full-sized candy bars  being the Halloween treat de rigueur back in my day.
    I remember even being excited on the first Halloween that I stayed home to give out candy to trick-or-treaters instead being among them. It was 1964. I was in eighth grade. I felt very grown-up, 
even though I still played with Barbies. (See post from 3/6/2014, https://www.ailantha.com/blog/our-barbies-ourselves).
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    I remember that night hearing  on the radio the song "She's Not There" by the British rock group The Zombies,
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...and thinking that was a cool song for Halloween because it sounded kind of spooky and The Zombies was kind of a spooky name. I think it's because of that song that this particular Halloween stands out so saliently in my memory.
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     Maybe it's because of the memories of Halloweens past,
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...that those of us who love Halloween continue to look forward to it,
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​...even after our own little ghosts,
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...and clowns,
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​...and dancers,
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​...and knights,
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...have long grown.
     Maybe we love Halloween because we see in the faces of the little
tricker- or -treaters, 

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...the faces of our own children, once upon a time,
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...and remember ourselves being young.
       Happy Halloween.
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2 Comments
Claire
11/2/2018 08:40:22 am

Thank you for the trip down memory lane Mom! Halloween was always so much fun at our house and in the neighborhood.

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Patti
11/2/2018 07:48:03 pm

It was, it was!

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