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As you might have heard, today is Halloween, and one of the popular traditions on Halloween, for kids especially, is to dress up in a costume and walk door-to-door in the neighborhood, asking for candy. It’s called “Trick-or-Treating,” and there’s a lot written about it online, if you’re interested in learning more. I did not go trick-or-treating when I was a kid. I grew up in rural Ohio, where the roads were long and winding, the sidewalks were non-existent, and the neighbors lived far apart from each other. Maybe that’s why I’m not particularly interested in the custom as an adult. Genevieve, meanwhile, loves Halloween, and she usually makes our home very inviting for the neighborhood kids. But she’s going to a costume party tonight, leaving me in charge of candy distribution this year. And not just candy distribution, mind you, but candy procurement as well. This is the first time I’ve ever had to think about which kinds of candy to buy for the young mooches of North Seattle. I could go the obvious route and pick up one of those omnipresent bags of mixed popular mini-candies -- Kit Kats, Nestle Crunches, Hershey’s bars, etc. But that seems a little basic and boring to me. (Plus, the kids will already have hundreds of those in their bags.) But I don’t want to get too creative and offer some rare candy that only a child aboard the Dawn Treader would find appealing.
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