Here are two helpful on the subject which are well thought out and may be helpful in making a good decision.
- Give Me Some Sugar Baby: The holy, hellish, hodgepodge history of Halloween at VOX POP from Mars Hill Church
- Halloween Fast Approaches at Challies Dot Com
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So I just now checked back and found out I won the phonics contest. I think all the mentioned reasons are why, but mostly the one about thinking like a small child. That and I live in Kentucky where people’s accents mangle words anyway.
A kind of good knowledge