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Poll Vault: What was your favorite Halloween costume?

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When I was 3, my mom dressed me in a nightgown, put some Christmas tinsel on my head and called me an angel. My Halloween costumes went downhill from there.

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For Halloween in 1987, my brother, Patrick, made his own "Ghostbusters" costume and proton pack.

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Halloween isn't my thing. Never has been. The pressure of coming up with a costume is too stressful. As a kid in the late 1970s and the early '80s, I was content to wear those store-bought, vinyl coveralls with the ill-fitting plastic mask. What was your favorite Halloween costume?