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How America stole Halloween from us — and made it better
As a Brit growing up in the 1980s, Halloween was something of a rite of passage. In October 1988, the buzz in our school canteen wasn’t over who fancied the new girl or who pissed in the swimming pool. It was about who was going as Freddy Krueger. We traded algebra for art as we painstakingly designed costumes in the back of our exercise books.…
