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We always put candy in a bowl on our front porch, so we can all leave home and my kids can go trick-or-treating with their cousins around their house instead.
We had the bowl stolen this year, though; first time that's ever happened. Our cameras didn't get a good look at whoever ran up and grabbed it, but it wasn't taken until after all the trick-or-treating was done, and none of our decorations (handmade, all with sentimental value, one which took a lot of work and parts) or jack-o-lanterns were touched, so the perpetrator must have been a relatively nice person, as scum-sucking thieves go. I don't think I'd be bothered if they'd only taken the candy, but that decade-old cheap plastic bowl was something we use all the time, the only one we had in its size, and I'm annoyed that we had to buy a replacement.
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