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Kelly Keller
Oct 24, 2022
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When I was in fourth grade, I was invited to my friend Jill’s house for a sleepover. There were several classmates there, as it was her birthday party that year. As a special treat, her parents had rented1 the VHS of the movie “Gremlins.”

I was pretty sure that movie was going to be too scary for me, and I was pretty sure that my parents would not have li…

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