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Two weeks ago, my sister “Holly” was watching our 7-year-old daughter “Sage,” while my wife, “Amber” took our 5-year-old son “Grayson” to a doctor’s appointment. Since it’s getting close to Halloween, Holly let her read the book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark . It was a book we had from when we were kids, and the illustrations, I admit, are scary. Sage liked the book so much that Holly let her take it home. Well, Sage showed it to Grayson, who absolutely freaked out, and now he won’t sleep with the lights off (we finally got him to go back to sleeping in his own room). Amber was so furious that she put the book through our paper shredder, pag

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