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COMING SOON (we hope)

When I was little I would say it as one word "trickortreat" with no understanding of its meaning, other than the fact that if I went up to a stranger's door on Halloween I would walk away with a treat - usually candy. It was many years later when I learned that a trick should be pulled on some chump who was too stingy to stay home and give out candy all night. I watched kids throwing eggs at a house one year. I think they had a personal issue with the resident. But as for me, there were too many houses that did have candy to give out to worry about the few that didn't.

There was one run down old house that we always avoided, but for some reason, one Halloween, we decided to climb the fence behind this house as a shortcut to the next street. I could see an old lady peaking at us from an upstairs window behind a curtain. It wasn't particularly scary at the time, but what haunts me now about it, was our insensitivity to this poor old woman.