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Why does Little Miss Muffet wear pants with ruffles?
“Mom,” I say. “You make me look crazy.”

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Pumpkin pie. Pizza pie.
It’s all the same. On Halloween.

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The icing is too thin. It runs down the side of the house.
Perfect for a haunted house.
Don’t you think?

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Trick or treating in the dorms.
Is easy candy.

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My costume is not ready. So I wear my orange and black sweater to the trick-or-treat fest downtown.
A lady looks at me and smiles.
“Are you a witch?” she asks.
I put my hands on my hips and glare at her.
No, I say.
And I thought only kids called each other names, I think to myself.

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Meow!

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I do not feel well. I am too hot. And I have a bad cough.
Mom takes me to see the doctor. A nurse hands me a yellow mask.
“Please cover your cough,” the nurse says. “Just in case it’s flu.”
Mom fits the mask over my mouth. And loops a string around my ears.
I do not like [...]

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