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9 last-minute Halloween costume ideas

9 last-minute Halloween costume ideas

Stay in character, people!

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Oct 31, 2021
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This is Emily Writes Back, an advice column for brilliant people, by Emily Sanders Hopkins, essayist and cartoonist.

One year, my friend Sarah asked me to draw extra eyes and mouths and noses onto her face. It was quick, scary, AND funny—the Halloween trifecta.

Dear Emily,

This was all his idea. My boyfriend and I are throwing a Halloween costume party to…

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