Growing up Halloween was one of my FAVORITE holidays. I loved walking around with my mom and my siblings and collecting candy. It is such a innocent and lovely memory that I still very much cherish to this day.
One year, when I was very little, I was "Devilina" for Halloween. I remember that year I BEGGED my mom to let me be Jennifer Tilly from the Chucky movies. However, my mom did not allow it.
I settled for "Devilina" and I was so excited that to go out that night and get a bunch of candy. My mom took us to the Sugar Hallow park close to our house and we walked around for a bit. We went to all the big houses and I got so much candy, I made my mom and older brother take turns holding my bag.
We then went to Burger King for dinner since my Godmother worked there and she would always give us meals- free of charge (which she was totally not supposed to do but she did anyways). Burger King would always hand out these yummy little taffys to all of the kids and me and my siblings would take HANDFULLS each (but we were all very little and had baby hands so a handful then would be a pinch now).
I remember this nice old man who came into the Burger King that day. He asked me what I was supposed to be and when I told him I was a girl devil he laughed and told me I was too sweet and cute to be a evil devil. I refused to listen and was too proud of my costume that I promptly disagreed with him.
However, my protests sounded like little squeals to this older man. After laughing at me again he gave me a dollar on his way out of the restaurant. I remember holding that money and feeling like I could buy everything in the entire world. I believed it was my costume that brought me that luck and fortunate and thus that costume became my favorite because of that wonderful memory.
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Halloween always holds the best memories and your piece is so descriptive and hints of your personality are given, as you emphasized the disregard of the old man's comment in Burger King. This was such a fun read!
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