I wanted the party to be American in size, so I invited my 40-person acting class. But I shrugged him off, for I knew that 'partay' actually meantВ 'invite over Donna and Margaret to play cards in the living room and talk about the price of beef.' The Grade 10 glitterati 'Your mom and I might have a partay of our own,' my father said. They had one condition, however: that I limit it to the basement. They agreed because I floated the idea in early September, and amidst the unfolding school year and the already-familiar voice of my brother's principal on the phone, Halloween must have seemed so distant into the future as to be on the other side of the apocalypse. 'Your mom and I might have aВ partayВ of our own,'В my father said. The anonymity of a fresh start is an occasion not to be squandered.ДЄnd so, when the leaves began to change, I asked my parents if I could host a Halloween party. You can become the stuff of your dreamsВ -В or nightmares.ДЇor Grade 10, I had enrolled at Central Memorial, a fine arts high school 90 minutes beyond the borderlands of my suburban Calgary postal code.

But none of them possess the singular opportunity that Halloween affords, where a metamorphosis is not only encouraged, but written into the rules. Much is made about the transformative opportunities of holidays such as New Year's orВ Valentine'sВ Day, with their insipid resolutions and Hallmark promises. Halloween is a night that glows with possibility. This First Person column is the experience of author Richard Kelly Kemick.В For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

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