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Halloween In The 'Hood

11/1/2022

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Books By Patti Liszkay
Available On Amazon

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​"Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
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​Available on Amazon.

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​HALLOWEEN IN THE 'HOOD

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       Halloween festivities in our neighborhood began on the night of Saturday, October 29,  with a party hosted by one of our wonderful neighbors to which everybody on the block - that is, every grown-up body on the block - was invited.         
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        It had been decades since I'd been to a Halloween party. I believe that last one I was at was one I threw for my children and their friends.
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      And so I was quite looking forward to this one. 
      For my costume I figured that I could get away with wearing one of my old piano recital dresses from back in the day when I used to do piano recitals, 
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...with a witch's hat.
      But as I dragged my feet on seeking out a witch’s hat until Saturday morning – the day of the party and two days before Halloween – the Halloween section at Meijer’s was totally grazed over with only a few straggly items left on clearance, among them not a witch’s hat.
       I did manage to find a sheriff’s hat, which I thought would make an oh-so-apropos costume for the Lieutenant Colonel (aka my mate Tom) to wear. 
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       So I decided to top off my recital dress with a colorful scarf and call myself a sorceress.
       (I realized, when I saw this picture that was taken of Tom and me, that I didn’t end up looking like a sorceress, but rather like a lady in black with a polka-dot headscarf. Tom, however, made a rather dashing sheriff, I thought). 
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      My costume fail did not, however, keep our neighbors’ Halloween party from being a great success, 
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…with lots of yummy food provided by our hosts and potluck dishes brought by the guests. 
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    I brought a tray of fresh-from-the oven ham and cheese rolls, 
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​…and a batch of Rice Krispie treats that were supposed to be pumpkins with upside-down mini-Reeses cups for the stems. 
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     ​    My Rice Krispie treats looked as much like pumpkins as I looked like a sorceress.
     The party was much enjoyed by all the neighbors and friends who came, many in terrific costumes.
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      And, though Tom and I left after a couple of hours, we heard the following day that the fun went on until 3 am. 
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       Two nights later Halloween once again brought our neighborhood to life, this time with children. 
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      Mayhaps because our street is the long artery through the heart of a dense housing subdivision off a busy thoroughfare, on Halloween night our street is always parked up with cars that come in from other places for, I suppose, the greener trick-or-treat pastures of our locality. ​
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      And in our neighborhood we were ready for our trick-or-treating visitors and welcomed them with open candy baskets.
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     ‘Cause in our neighborhood, that’s the way we roll on Halloween.
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        Hope everyone’s Halloween was happy!
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    by Patti Liszkay
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    "Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1684334888

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    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
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