Forget all the Bernie Madoff masks. If you want to see something really scary on Halloween, come to my home about 9 p.m. I'm letting my kids eat unwrapped candy.

They can eat any homemade goodies they get, too, and that unholy of unholies: candy that has a slightly torn wrapper. And on the very off chance they get an apple, they can gnaw it to the core, as long as there's not a razor-sized dripping gash on the side.

Which always seemed as if it would be kind of a giveaway that s ...

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