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Collected Item: “Halloween 2021”

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Halloween 2021

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Photograph of E. Felder (16) in her homemade costume with mask

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She made this costume herself to go trick-or-treating in the City with classmates. Apparently, they don't think high school is too old for that nowadays. Last year, we didn't let her go out and we didn't hand out candy either. With a sick grandmother in the home who uses oxygen, it was just not a risk we could afford.

She came back and said that the trick-or-treating was pretty skimpy. We didn't get many kids at home either... but that might have been because Halloween fell on a Sunday this year.

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Staten Island, Halloween, mask

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

E. Felder (costume), A. Felder (photograph)

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2021
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