Bellerose

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Bellerose, Queens.

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in Bellerose, Queens.

I remember Mrs. Shapiro telling us, uh, "Halloween, that's all a bunch of nonsense." And I started thinking, "No, that's not really true." [laughs] This is a, a holiday with roots that go as, as deep as our own Abrahamic traditions, maybe deeper.

And my job as a kid, age eight or nine, was to listen to people say Halloween is nonsense, was to listen to people say, "Oh, newspaper astrology, that's all bogus," was to listen to people say, "Don't pay attention to the robed guru on Merv Griffin," and ask, "Why? Why?" And I wanted to peel back the layers and discover the history of these things.

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in the town of Bellerose, where I grew up, uh, on Union Turnpike-

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