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Halloween isn’t so much a holiday anymore as it is a season, a time to get in touch with the dark and spooky, to recognize that there is as much we don’t know about the creepy world around us as there is we do know, and to acknowledge that tingle down the spine is as important to life as the wholesome joy of the Christmas Season. In fact, Halloween has become the anti-Christmas. We will be looking at things Halloweeny all through the season (see our ’04 roundup here, ’03 here):
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