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for me, halloween was better than christmas and my birthday rolled into one. my friend gail and i bought alien mask kits together. we worked on the masks for several days in preparation for halloween. we planned to make it the biggest candy haul yet. the anticipation was unbearable, we raced through dinner, donned our alien outfits and hit the streets.
a costume-less man answered the first door. he seemed irritated. he looked gail and i up and down with a furrowed brow. at nine years old i was freakishly tall. gail was small for his age. the man reached into a mixing bowl, grabbed a hand full of tootsie rolls and dropped all but one into gail's extended treat bag. he looked into my giant glowing alien eyes.
"yer kinda old for halloween" the man said in a scolding tone.
he flipped the single remaining tootsie roll into my sack.
i tried to tell him that i was actually younger than gail, but the door closed before i could. this scenario repeated itself at several doors. each time it hurt a little more, i felt like a freak. gail thought it was funny. his bag weighed twice mine.
a small green alien heart was breaking. under the mask, alien tears silently trickled down my cheeks.
Posted by griff at October 31, 2002 01:56 AM