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to which people came from all the parish around
"If Aunt Queen happened to be at horeat number of old friends of hers joined the festivities, and the costu full of princes and princesses of all description, elegant vayptian queens,hite gauze
"I loved all of the Halloween Weekend, you can tell by the way I dote on it And it won't surprise you to learn that the expert ghost hunters never once took notice of Goblin, even when Goblin danced around the his mouth
"Of course Goblin isn't the ghost of a living person, but these experts were very good at declaring that poltergeists orking their subtle activities in the kitchen and pantry, accounting for pings and pongs of noise that one could scarce hear, or the sound of a radio devolving froeists are pure spirits as far as I know
"This wasup -- this and the Christ and the singing on the staircase and of course the huge dinner of roast turkey, goose and has, and the weather outside being soh for the women to wear their old fur coats that s with full hearts
"It see the Christ, it seees, and to do it with such stout hearts, that see and wonderful I cried every year It was that and the purity of the soprano who sang 'O Holy Night,' and 'What Child Is This?' Of course I joined in the singing myself
"And lest I overlook it, there was the Spring Festival, when the azaleas planted all around Blackwood Manor were blooe buffet, al, outside on the lawn There was always an Easter Buffet as well
"Then I suppose I should throw in all the weddings again and the co waiters I would meet in the kitchen, who to a one felt the 'vibrations' of spirits, and the brides becoht and the hairdresser had already gone, and Sweetheart,and puffing up the stairs to the rescue and snatching up her electric curling iron and doing a few excellent tricks she knew to ht
"There was Mardi Gras too, when, even though we're an hour and a half from New Orleans, ere booked solid, and we decorated in the traditional colors of purple, green and gold
"Sometimes, a very few times, I went into the city to see some of the Mardi Gras parades Sweetheart's sister, Aunt Ruthie, lived on St Charles Avenue, which you know is the main parade route But she wasn't a Blackwood, and her sons, though probably normal, appeared to me to be monsters with too much body hair and overly deep voices, and I felt uncomfortable there
"So Mardi Gras didn't penetrate to aiety out here at the house, and the inevitable costuht of Fat Tuesday itself It was a how many revelers ca Zulu, Rex and the interminable truck parades, to drink themselves sick at our festive bar
"Of course I did very occasionally encounter other children here -- at the Halloween party and at the Christs -- but I didn't take to them They seeh atBut as I've said, my world was made up of spirits and adults, and I just didn't knohat to do with children
"I think I feared children as treacherous and even a little dangerous I'm not sure why exactly, except that Goblin didn't like them, but Goblin really didn't like
"I hung with the adults by natural inclination and strong choice
"I can't think about the weddings now, as we talk together, without thinking of so that happened far froht I was made a Blood Hunter But the time will come for that, I know