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Fifth Floor Halloween

Halloween came, and one could only run and scream or be relieved to be aiming the camera rather than wearing the costume.  You, the viewer, can only be thankful that my camera had just lost its legendary ability to take pictures in the dark.  (Really— it’s the camera, not me, that made these pictures bad.  Anything that looks half-decent is thanks to photoshop.)

Dan, Thalya, and you can’t really see Jessie in the back.

   Dan is my friend and at this point he was my roommate.  The room is ours.
   Jessie, a Natick person as is Dan, is very nice but I should not have ever applied to Vassar, the school she wanted to go to.
   Thalya is one of the coolest people ever and I wish I were still in touch with her.  And yes, she is wearing some kind of crazy tall shoes and blue lipstick.

Big Ben (as opposed to me, non-big Ben), in our lounge.
   Ben isn’t normal even when he isn’t dressed as a pumpkin, but life will be interesting when he rules the world.  He is very deep for someone who would use this as a Halloween costume.   For obvious reasons, this person has asked to remain anonymous.
This is Tom, also in our lounge.
   Tom was from down the hall and he knew most everything worth knowing.
Keith.
   Keith never really had a conversation with me even though he lived next door, but I got his roommate (third hand) and he borrowed my bike so I am putting him in his beautiful costume on my web page.
Two more floormates, and Tom again.  I’ll explain who they are below.
   I’m blanking on the name of the construction worker.  He was laid back, lived at the very end of the floor, and wasn’t around that much.  We had competing toolboxes.  He had a nice set, but I had greater mass with my miscellaneous junk.  Everyone on the floor borrowed from us.  In the cowboy outfit is K4 (we had one Kevin who lived on the floor and another, K5, who visited all the time.  Ks 1, 2, and 3 were never found.  Both K4 and K5 could only sort of remember one or two, never three, of the other Kevins.)