Trick Or Treating Halloween Harmful Or Harmful

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When we went trick or treating at the mall, people looked at us as if we we weird and confused.They had either stared at us or looked confused. These reactions happened because we went against the social norm of trick or treating on Halloween. Instead of trick or treating on Halloween, we trick or treated six months after Halloween. This is really abnormal because Halloween has long past. Also, we wore costumes, which made us appear different to society. This made others feel uncomfortable because they knew that Halloween had long past and were concerned that we had lost our minds. In addition,we went against clarified norms. This is through going over the boundary of going to a mall with our Halloween costumes, trick or treating and were

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