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I've set it before and I'll say it again, I do not want our daughters participating

in some creepy ritual in the woods on Halloween night.

My heart thundered in my chest, my mouth was dry, only a few months before I never would

have imagined such a ridiculous combination of words coming out of my mouth, yet here

I was, in my wife's hometown, at the mercy of its peculiar traditions.

Just 4 months ago, everything had been different, I'd been working as an insurance agent

in a mid-sized midwestern city.

Our two daughters Nina and Marilyn had just finished first grade and the biggest argument

between my wife Danny and I usually had to do with the noise of my coffee grinder on

Sunday morning.

And so, as spring turned to summer, I noticed a quiet distance developed between my wife

and I.

Danny spent more and more time staring out the window and sighing, or going for long walks

by herself in the park.

Nina and Marilyn are growing up, she said to me, over a rare romantic dinner we'd

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