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An excerpt:
"How much money you got?" I asked Cecil. Cecil had thirty cents, too, which made us even. We squandered our first nickels on the House of Horrors, which scared us not at all: we entered the black seventh-grade room and were led around by the temporary ghoul in residence and were made to touch several objects alleged to be component parts of a human being. "Here's his eyes," we were told when we touched two peeled grapes on a saucer. "Here's his heart," which felt like raw liver. "These are his innards," and our hands were thrust into a plate of cold spaghetti.
~ from To Kill a Mockingbird,
written by Harper Lee
Have you ever been in a "House of Horrors" like this? I remember doing this at a friend's Halloween party once when I was young, only we were blindfolded. I wasn't scared by it, but it was still a bit creepy to touch the various items when I couldn't actually see them.
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