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To the editor:
Now that Halloween is over, I am hoping that someone has the decency to return our pumpkin man. For the past three Halloweens he has been stationed on our fence post and greeted travelers who frequent Route 647. Many of these people have told me how they and/or their children looked forward to watching for the pumpkin man as they passed by our entrance to our property. Now he exists no more.
Of course, maybe I should have known that this 5-foot tall, orange fabric jack-o-lantem with long spindly legs and arms could possibly be stolen as that would fit into the events that have happened since we first started to improve our property six years ago.
After two chain saws and firewood were stolen, we locked a chain across our driveway. Then someone cut the lock and stole the chain. During the weekend of Mother’s Day, 1987, someone removed two azalea bushes from our entrance way. Then this year, during the Father’s Day weekend, someone took five evergreen shrubs. (Someone does not know the true meaning of giving!)
And now we face the loss of our dear pumpkin man. I did not report this theft to the Sheriffs Department as this homemade decoration was of very little monetary value and I had hoped he would be returned. Maybe I had better warn the thief of another incident surrounding the “life and times of the pumpkin man!”
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