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…

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