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this was published in the New York Times the other day... hopefully this link won't die... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/opinion/31gaiman.html?ex=1319950800&en=936cc44f65110fa8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

There were days that changed everything: birthdays and New Years and First Days of School, days that showed us that there was an order to all things, and the creatures of the night and the imagination understood this, just as we did. All Hallows’ Eve was their party, the night all their birthdays came at once. They had license — all the boundaries set between the living and the dead were breached — and there were witches, too, I decided, for I had never managed to be scared of ghosts, but witches, I knew, waited in the shadows, and they ate small boys.