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Research Paper On Halloween
Halloween is the one of many exciting things a kid looks forward too, but this certain Halloween did not go as it was planned. Early in the morning I was already having one of those I-am-bored-out-of-my-mind days. On October 31, 2010, playing at the Lee’s house outside is where the Halloween madness all began. Here is how the story goes: we were playing on our razor scooters throwing them up in the air by the handles and landing them back on the ground. You're probably thinking ‘stupid’ right?, but anyways, I threw my razor scooter up in the air and I had told Page that she couldn’t get her scooter as high up as I did. So us being kids she threw hers up in the air as well, and I must have somehow scooted ahead of her because when the scooter

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