17October 2000
Neither one of us were big on drinking anymore; we didn't keep alcohol in the house, and we didn't go to bars. Maybe it was that we were getting older and didn't see the appeal of it anymore. Maybe it was that we'd both spent too much time drinking when we were younger. Whatever the reason, neither of us had an interest in it anymore. So once Halloween came around, we weren't sure what to do. When Evelyn and I were still living in the city, we got trick-or-treaters all night, and by the time they stopped coming we weren't in the mood to do anything but eat the leftover candy. But this year we weren't living in an apartment building where there were at least a dozen kids on each floor—we weren't even living in a neighborhood, where we might have gotten a couple handfuls of t
