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Bogeywoman

I have been horrified by my kids in their Halloween costumes. They often toy with iterations of costumes in the weeks and days leading up to the big day, only to give me a shock the night of.

Bunny, zombie business man, kid lost trick or treating, pharmacist gone berserk, ghost, bunny, skeleton.

While none of these costumes are elaborate, if the light is right...they make you squint and see them as the terrifying little essences that they can be.

My daughter, long haunted by Coraline, scared my socks off one year with her rendering of  Coraline's mother, her personal bogey woman.

This year, my son finally settled on a skeleton and when he stretched out on the sidewalk, I could barely look at him through my fingers.


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