Prom night is here – and I have finally, decisively, turned into my mother | Zoe Williams
She always believed Halloween was an Americanism too far. What would she have thought about the rise of this US high school tradition in Britain?When I was young, and Halloween was just becoming a thing, and other people’s mums were doing fun stuff like blindfolding children and sticking their hands in a bowl of peeled grapes, calling them witches’ eyeballs, my mum was saying: “This is a disgusting Americanisation of what was previously a very low-key event.”I used to daydream…
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