I spend nights wandering the crime beat in downtown Lewiston, Maine. My newsroom desk is decorated with ghouls and bats. I've had many first dates in cemeteries and I take the week of Halloween off each year. Sometimes I visit Salem, Massachusetts. Last year, it was Sleepy Hollow. Many years, I've spent the big night at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. On the Fourth of July though, I'm quite normal.

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