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If you’ve ever gone trick-or-treating, you have also probably had your parents inspect your Halloween candy. It was the time you dreaded as a kid during Halloween. It was the perfect opportunity for your parents, under the guise of safety, to pick out or “confiscate” their favorite candy bar from your sugary haul; but of course, it was for your safety. Good parents have to be safe, right? What few parents actually realize, however, is that poisoned/tampered Halloween candy is an urban legend; mostly propagated by one man, Ronald Clark O’ Bryan, the man who killed Halloween.
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