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LA times columnist Joel Stein has a problem with Halloween - and a solution. Here’s a start:

Holidays are for children and conservatives. And the one holiday that is still just for kids — free of campaigns to replace Santa with creches, painted eggs with crucifixes, fireworks with flag lapel pins — has been ruined by the rest of the adults.

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