cNutgroist

Last night was Halloween and my poor little lovely, who'd been denied an opportunity to celebrate it in the proper way every single year of her childhood by her wicked 'parents', was flying home after a week away of dastardly business deals and gruesome family duties. It was an oddly moving moment to see her discover the grinning Jack O'Lantern i'd spent the afternoon carving (and did you know it is traditionally a turnip?! i stuck with a pumpkin), sitting out on the balcony, in the darkness and cursing us with his glowing spiky mouth while we ate spicy soup made largely from his stringy, fleshy innards.

I think it's important to make up for disappointments in childhood. Not actually recreate and rectify them, just to do what you can.

It's why she hung out a stocking for me one xmas and filled it with presents the next morning. Just because.
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